Summary
Despite campaign rhetoric, Biden retained almost all Trump-era tariffs and added new restrictions on US investment in Chinese military-linked companies. The strategic consensus in Washington had shifted: competition, not engagement, was now bipartisan.
Why the Biden team concluded tariff removal would be a unilateral concession with nothing to show for it.
How the foreign policy establishment converged on strategic competition as the organising framework.
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