Thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, our relationship with Communist China is again receiving the tiny bit of scrutiny that passes for communist China-relationship scrutiny. 

As always, the relationship deserves much more scrutiny than it gets.

The last time the China relationship received a little scrutiny? That was in 2020, when the China virus reminded us that we rely way too much on China for the manufacture of … well, pretty much everything that really matters—and a whole lot of stuff that really doesn’t.     

Hence, the Trump tariffs, to try to make us even a little less reliant on China. How pathetic is Washington that it took five years (really, 50)—and an anti-Washington outsider president—to finally begin to address this?

In response to Trump’s tariffs imposed in part to offset China using subsidies and slave labor to flood the U.S. with anti-free market, artificially cheap stuff, China is ramping up its use of subsidies and slave labor to increase its U.S. flood of anti-free market, artificially cheap stuff.  

China’s horrendous dominance of U.S. is all-encompassing. Another vital aspect of U.S. national life it dominates: All things tech.   

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