Trump is right on trying to shithammer China.
This goes back to his first term. Biden continued the tariffs and now Trump is back at it.
Unfortuantely, it's not as effective when you attack China by attacking the entire world. It always works better when you get specific, and target the attacks.
Word from the Trump admin is that they felt it was to complex to look at individual issues, they weren't capable of executing a plan that required homework.
So they chose, even some at last minute, the route they took. An easy way that didn't require any depth of research. They may have even used ChatGPT to come up with their numbers...lol.
Of course there were better ways to achieve the goals, but then again the White House has contradicted those goals many times. Hard to achieve a goal when you can't define it or decide on one.
There simply were better ways to go about this, you won't find anyone disagreeing with that, unless they are mixing politics into it, then the propaganda can take those people down any road.
Let's see if any investment announcements in the US come to fruition. Trumpo admin doesn't have a great track record there, but anything can change.