I don’t understand where people get that idea from.
In practice nothing the US has done has hurt the CCP. If anything, it has strengthened them domestically.
The major actions the Trump administration has taken against China are:
1) Tariffs which only served to hurt American farmers, considering there was hardly any drop off in Chinese exports to the US (and that’s on paper, since a lot of Chinese exports are now hidden as Vietnamese exports, etc) but significant drop offs in American exports to China.
2) A long sustained battle against 1 Chinese company. While Huawei is suffering, the likes of Xiaomi, etc are still doing just fine.
3) Whining about the nomenclature around SARS-COV-2.
On the flip side, the administration dismantled TPP, which was a decade+ long effort spanning multiple US administrations, and nearly every non Chinese country on the Pacific, that would have actually dealt a huge blow to Chinese bullying by providing companies doing manufacturing in China much more attractive alternatives in the countries surrounding China.
Xiaomi is only in end-user electronics and has nothing on infrastructure hardware - AFAIK it is not competing with US companies in deploying 5G hardware.
I do not consider a +20% drop in Chinese exports to the US as "hardly any drop".
TPP was a nightmare opposed both by the left and right - and even by Hillary Clinton - at-least formally in her campaign. Only corporate shareholders supported it. It even pushed copyright terms further! See
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/whats-wrong-tpp
In practice nothing the US has done has hurt the CCP. If anything, it has strengthened them domestically.
The major actions the Trump administration has taken against China are: 1) Tariffs which only served to hurt American farmers, considering there was hardly any drop off in Chinese exports to the US (and that’s on paper, since a lot of Chinese exports are now hidden as Vietnamese exports, etc) but significant drop offs in American exports to China. 2) A long sustained battle against 1 Chinese company. While Huawei is suffering, the likes of Xiaomi, etc are still doing just fine. 3) Whining about the nomenclature around SARS-COV-2.
On the flip side, the administration dismantled TPP, which was a decade+ long effort spanning multiple US administrations, and nearly every non Chinese country on the Pacific, that would have actually dealt a huge blow to Chinese bullying by providing companies doing manufacturing in China much more attractive alternatives in the countries surrounding China.