Do we really want to help China get rich off of slave Labour, by not taxing imports of e.g. Temu products? Tariffs could be a force for good.
And I hate Trump in general. But perhaps he's doing the right thing, for the wrong reason, when it comes to China.
To my mind, taxing most Chinese products by 100 or even 200% seems like a good and noble thing to do. China is already politically unstable; making it poor really fast might encourage its people to overthrow the dictatorship that rules them.