Agree, they got nothing to offer. There is only one thing I can think for that China would accept.
That is stop the hostility. In rhetoric and in action. But, they cannot help themselves.
Obama was the one who started it off with some restrictions on high end semi-conductor chips and was the architect of the TPP whose sole intention was to box in China economically.
That did not work, with Chinese computing industry still able to advance, and the TTP died of natural causes.
Trump 1.0 had a trade war and tech war which centered around Hauwei. They egged on Taiwan too.
That did not work, as Chinese trade increased, the RCEP came into being, and Huawei is still here, built the 5G in China and shit. PLAAF and PLAN do regular combat patrols around Taiwan now, changing the status quo.
Biden people increased the sanctions and tech war. One highlight was the 100% tariff on EVs.
That did not work, as Chinese economy kept growing meeting the targets set by the government which meant the Chinese grew a lot faster than the US economy, Huawei makes a comeback in phones with a 7nm chip, and Chinese EVs going global nowadays.
Trump 2.0 we had more sanctions and Liberation Day trade war.
That did not work as Huawei strong as ever, DeepSeek suddenly appeared, and all the other tech like Green Energy, the NEVs, and the robotics keep on going. Also Chinese trade surplus at $1 trillion going for two straight years, unprecedented. Meanwhile in the US, there is a tech spending boom in data centers, but a general malaise in the rest of the US economy. The Chinese economy forecast to grow at 4.8% by the World Bank this year, compared to 0.7% for the US economy. That is not the US winning, that is losing.
Like the communist said, China and the United States should be friends, but those turkeys in Washington cannot help themselves.
So they are getting what they wanted, conflict, as they were asking for it.
It is hard to say. Sooner or later, a day like this would come, what the Chinese did with the rare earths again.
I claim it is hard to say, because of Russia and Gaza, now there is a third front of economic war with China? I doubt the United States is that good a juggling.
So, there could be a chance the hostility could stop. But I doubt it. With Trump anything is possible. He suppressed the Epstein files, and Trump actually shut down the FBI investigation into his own assassination attempt, kind of weird and funny.