By most economists accounts, Americas sanctions hurt America's economy more than it helped it. The sanctions may have helped certain industries and areas of Am

By most economists accounts, Americas sanctions hurt America's economy more than it helped it. The sanctions may have helped certain industries and areas of America by kneecapping Chinese high-tech, but it takes more than that for Republicans to start a round of sanctions and the Democrats to continue them. There is a very blatant military interest in keeping China behind in terms of technology. People have had a very clear picture of what technology can do for a military in a conventional war since the Gulf War where the Iraqi Republican Guard, the 4th largest military in the world, was obliterated from a distance by high-tech computerised weaponry and military systems and totally demoralised. There can be multiple motives. If both high-tech and the military want something, that makes it that much more of a political winner.