Consider the Possibility That Trump Is Right About China
theatlantic.com
theatlantic.com
Trump has proven repeatedly not to base his opinions on facts, so while his opinions might coincide with facts from time to time is besides the point.
The article in question does not at all touch on how we got there and why there is now public/office willingness to do something about it.
It has long been true about both US and China that they are not stopping at much to achieve their global-ruler agendas, just in a slightly different way. So there is no need to consider how China is doing that, we all know they are. And the mention of US aid coming with no strings attached — ha.
And the most blatant explanation of the current trade war is the rising economic standard in China, where salaries are not multiple orders of magnitude smaller anymore, and the production costs are now not even an order of magnitude lower than they would be in US. Which means that the globalist capitalist system driven by big US businesses is getting close to not getting any returns on making China richer and more equal economically. But this discrepancy in standard of living has long been the driving force of USA's purchasing power and middle class fortune.
The most significant aspect of the article is that The Atlantic, a left-of-center news publication, which usually doesn’t agree with Trump on anything, agrees with Trump about China. That is not something that happens very often.
You do have an important insight there: you believe—well, you claim that—Trump is doing what's best for the US. I do not, but belief is usually not up for debate.