Becoming such a sore loser. Historians will probably look this as the most shameful period of the American empire.
ETA from the first paragraph of the article: "The U.S. has held off... to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing."
When the dust settles it won't even be a single page in history books, my local bakery is older than the "american empire"
For all the current admin's insane, ridiculous, corrupt, and criminal flaws, it's not clear to me how much of this particular issue is just the US government doing what it's always done, knee-jerk react to tech it doesn't understand by passing stupid laws.
In that regard, history offers few precedents to learn from. Most countries have to be physically attacked to suffer the kind of damage that American voters are inflicting on themselves.