I think both parties were just paying lipservice to the CCP/China issue as long as big businesses were raking in the cash and consumers were getting good deals

I think both parties were just paying lipservice to the CCP/China issue as long as big businesses were raking in the cash and consumers were getting good deals on cheap plastic sht from them. Huge failure. They should've squeezed them in 1990-1992 as the USSR was dissolving and there was no pressing power to contend with. And North Korea they should've attacked then as well. No other way to solve this when the opponent will use your goodwill against you to play you for decades straight like the Kim dynasty.