I like how the point of the article is that the lack of chinese investment weakens the US soft power but the trade war which is the US first example of using su

I like how the point of the article is that the lack of chinese investment weakens the US soft power but the trade war which is the US first example of using such power is heralded as bad. We haven't convinced them to become a democracy, I haven't convinced them to stop attacking other democracies (Taiwan, HK, Japan, Norway), we haven't even gotten them to agree to WTO rules they said they'd comply with.