The Failure of China Engagement Policies Justifies Trump Admin’s New Approach
By Stu Cvrk 5/12/2025 Updated: 5/12/2025
Commentary
Opinions about President Donald Trump’s efforts to rebalance international trade and isolate China are legion. Some characterize the resulting policy shift to isolate the communist country as brilliant and long overdue, while others call it economic malpractice.
One’s point of view often depends on whose ox is being gored. Those who have long questioned the U.S. policy decisions over the years that facilitated China’s rapid development and modernization—and the subsequent rise of Chinese mercantilism and the People’s Liberation Army, America’s growing dependency on Chinese-produced strategic minerals and pharmaceuticals, and the decline of U.S. manufacturing offshored to China—believe that a Chinese reset is essential and a U.S. national security imperative.
On the other hand, those who have made careers out of (and benefited personally from) China engagement—whether diplomats, academics, politicians, or business people—believe that U.S.–China policy should return to that of engagement, or at least “friendly competition.” These people have come to be categorized over the decades as “China hands.”
What has history taught? Let us examine the topic.
China Hands
In the first decades of the 20th century, U.S. involvement expanded on the political-military front, especially after Dec. 7, 1941. The United States and China formed an official wartime alliance in 1942, and the United States provided considerable material support to China throughout the war, including through an extension of credits to the Chinese regime.
Throughout that time, members of the U.S. diplomatic corps in China, as well as journalists, missionaries, businessmen, and others with lengthy direct experience in China, came to be known as “China hands.” They were the modern-day equivalent of experts who influenced U.S. policies through congressional testimony and public persuasion and helped steer U.S.–China policy.
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