Was this a deliberate humiliation of the US planned by the China-Russia axis and executed by the Trump administration? It undermines US confidence in its own ability to project geopolitical power and can be used as an excuse to lift sanctions on Russia and not levy any if PLA invades Taiwan.

It's suspicious why he implemented tariffs in the most self-defeating way byexcluding tariffs on the geopolitically most important product categories, like consumer electronics, where China has way too much control over global manufacturing and supply chains.

Another thing is how some of the most influential people in the Trump admin are anti-tariff right-wing Libertarians like Elon Musk which raises questions why Trump even started doing this crap.