What the writer of this article does not understand is that China winning the trade war. Chinas mixed economy with strong capital allocation direction from the CCP has deliver incredible results while the US with its crony capitalist economy based ever increasingly on financialisation is sinking into a mire of chronic debt and it cannot compete in world markets for most products because it is degraded in terms of productive efficiency. The entire supply chain of US manufacturing is bloated with parasitic rentseeking corporate cartels who increase the input costs for all other enterprise. In contrast Chinas economy is designed to minimise input costs for all productive enterprise making China the most efficient producer in the world. Trumps attempt to mimic Chinas state directed strategy is unlikely to succeed as the write notes the US political system is very unlikely to provide the continuity that would be required for such a process to succeed. It would take 2-4 decades to achieve if there was the political concensus- but there isn't. US economy is thus on an almost unavoidable path to insolvency and ruin. The only question now is how to best manage the decline of US power wealth and hegemony, and there Trump is probably ahead of the others. Damage limitation is now the only credible viable option, but with very US citizens even aware of let alone ready to accept the problem even that will not be easy.