>>918253
I think it goes something like this. China doesnt wake up every morning wanting to destroy us or fight us, but they gladly took our intel and technology for 8 years (or was it 28 years?), gladly circumvented us to weaken us, take our money, get good trade deal, make us obsolete, lower us as competition, etc. Xi is/was dirty for sure, and I think now is just playing ball with us. I think Trump has leverage over him. Think about it this way, if a German spy gave us tech to make a Mercedez Benz, and we could do it so cheap that we could then produce our own, cutting Germany out of the picture, we would. That's what happened with alot of USA tech. Same with the spying. If we had an opportunity to bug tech and then sell to say Germany, thus being able to fully spy on them, we would do it. Not because we want to destroy them, but because we want the "one up" on an international competitor. China/USA are the top two goods producers on the planet, so China would gladly cheat to get an advantage over us. We would do the same, just unfortunately the plan was to weaken our country and not strengthen it. Trump basically went over there and told China he knows what happened the past 28 years, and he informed Xi there is a new sheriff in town, and Trump and USA do have real leverage over China as far as trade and tariffs, bringing companies back over here, etc. So China realized they were caught, their gig was up, and they had to decide to play clean now. Make sense?