In many ways, Biden and Trump have similar views, namely that America should be the world's singular hyper-power which dominates China and all other countries for its own benefit.

If those countries won't cooperate then they will be economically blockaded, to the extent such a thing is possible and not merely self-destructive in the current globalized environment.

Any moral or legal issues or hypocrisy are secondary to the advancement of US imperial authority and control over resources.

Part of the problem with this whole way of thinking, aside from its amorality and its fixation on American hegemony over all other concerns like climate, is it's just another version of trickle-down.

"If we ban our competitors or make them prohibitively expensive through tariffs then US firms will eventually fill the void and create great new jobs without us having to do anything."

That doesn't work, it's never worked, and it can't work in this environment.

There is "AI," for example, something else Biden and many Democrats are obsessed with.

US companies aren't trying to make the best product or even a workable product; they're just trying to soak up investor cash for a short-term payout.

The response to DeepSeek won't be a scramble to innovate, it will be a rush to ban it and an attempt to further strangle Chinese access to processors.

This complacency is exactly how the US lost the electronics race to Japan in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

Also, if you really want to promote green energy and electric vehicles and spur innovation, you would open up markets to competition and absorb good ideas and products from elsewhere.

Instead, Biden slapped high tariffs on Chinese EVs in order to protect domestic companies like Tesla, which are basically bubble-driven shell companies.

There is also the political problem: most Americans don't actually care where their stuff comes from as long as it's cheap.

But Biden, like Trump, is obsessed with the idea of a manufacturing renaissance powered by US global hegemony when the US is already a leading exporter.

It's just automation means factories don't require that many workers, and there is no way to shoehorn more jobs in there without being less competitive.

It also costs more to manufacture things here, if we can make them at all, which is why we off-shored what we did. And again, Americans don't actually care as long as shit is cheap.