I struggle to understand why some people paint President Trump as the villain in this tariff war.
It's because of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Let’s not forget that China has long banned or restricted many U.S. products and services. Trump’s tariffs are a response to China’s unfair trade practices, which have persisted for over a decade. Beyond tariffs, China blocks major U.S. companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google from operating in its market. In my view, China hasn’t been playing fair. They restrict foreign goods and services in their country while expecting open access for their own products abroad. That’s hardly equitable.
Yeah, China's market has been *very* hard to enter because they are trying really hard to kick out global competitors to prop up their domestic counterparts in the hopes that those companies can compete with Silicon Valley (e.g. Temu, Deepseek).
Unfortunately I don't see those restrictions being lifted any time soon. These also include censorship measures against entire companies which they don't like (i.e. which don't delete content the CCP doesn't like at will), so what you have is this "solar system" where half of the stars and moons were pulled into the nearby black hole.