Then block all trade outright with China if they show themselves willing to be so openly belligerent.

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha. As someone who works in manufacturing in the USA - we can't keep our domestic factories running, or build new ones, without trade with China. We also can't keep our hospitals running, manufacture vehicles, or a million other things without Chinese components/tools/materials.

Illegal fentanyl is already legally blocked, but somehow still gets in. This is like making drug smuggling illegal, yes, we can do that, we do that, but for some reason the drugs are still smuggled in.

> if they show themselves willing to be so openly belligerent

Why would they need to be open about it? But also: the time to do that was 30 years ago.

Pointing the gun, telling the others to drink the kool-aid.

That seems unlikely