Trump’s 2016 China-Bashing Playbook Risks Flopping Against Biden
- President says decoupling possible; record doesn’t back that
- Biden says Trump broke promise to bring jobs back to U.S.
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President Donald Trump is reviving his 2016 campaign playbook on attacking China, but running as the incumbent means defending a record of only limited success in rewriting the economic relationship with Beijing.
Much of what the Trump team has laid out in recent weeks sounds like campaign promises made four years ago: Stopping outsourcing and bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., ending dependence on China for crucial inputs and supporting companies that make things in America.