The Chinese admit that Joe Biden’s weakness fed their trade depredations - Andrea Widburg

First, it reveals how utterly feckless Joe Biden was and, second, it reveals how America benefits from a manifestly strong president.
Here’s Bessant explaining that the groundwork for the deal was already laid by the agreements reached with China during Trump’s presidency, deals China unilaterally ignored because it rightly understood that Biden was too weak to matter:

Here’s the money quote:

...The Chinese delegation basically told us that, once President Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations.