But collectively they are yielding a United States that is fundamentally more closed โ and more like China in meaningful ways.
How about you stop worrying about how much we are literally doing 1984 and build some high speed rail? Or some new housing? Now that would be more like China in a "meaningful way."
The existing tariffs were already prohibitively expensive for Chinese automakers. The new ones won't change much. The old automakers will still get their lunch eaten in every country but this one and the US's military and legacy automobiles will continue to kill the ecosphere as before.