If you want to compete with China, you don’t hollow out U.S. R&D, you don’t drive immigrants away, & you don’t double-down on the fossil fuel industry at the expense of renewables. The fascist may view 🇨🇳 as a scary racial competitor, but not enough to put aside their dreams of a far-right utopia. /🧵

The kleptocratic elements of the admin see the “competition” as a way extracting rents via trade policy and negotiations with Beijing. The far-right does fear China, but they’d rather build a hemispheric hierarchy to support an American herrenvolk.