>All these tariffs are accomplishing is incentivizing Chinese corporations to rapidly expand their production capabilities in facilities located in other nation

>All these tariffs are accomplishing is incentivizing Chinese corporations to rapidly expand their production capabilities in facilities located in other nations. So in fact, we are financing China's increasing power and influence over both its neighbors and within the global economy. This is the same naivete that got us into this situation in the first place. What, are we "pot committed" and have to continue putting up with this behavior when it starts to actually affect our culture (or mine, since you are implying you're not from the US/Europe)? We don't have to keep financing any of this. We made a deliberate choice around two decades ago to outsource our manufacturing base to them. We can un-do this decision - it will be really expensive, and there will be short term pain for sure - but greater re-ordering of the global economy has happened in the past. Believe me, I'm more than willing to entertain arguments about how Hong Kong should be left alone and that is China's problem to deal with. But in my humble opinion - which I'm grateful that I can express without being censored - the US should make integration as painful as possible. If the cost of "China's Rise" is free speech in the US, then screw it. All bets are off. Edit: realizing that you copy-pasted a comment from the article itself, which I couldn't see because of ad-blockers.