Sanctions that accomplish nothing except slowing American domestic development and increasing inflation.Get sanction after sanction and then go meet the abuser. How many times did Xi meet Biden via video, what did any of those meetings accomplish?
They meet you and then sanction you. Need to have some self respect first if you want others to respect you.
The USSR also slapped constant sanctions on everyone outside their sphere. It got so bad at some time points that even American made clothing was banned. It didn't make them better at developing new tech nor make their people have better life quality.
As the total economic gap between China and America is just widening while on the indivudal life quality front, China is advancing while US is stalled, I think Beijing is just going for the least risky and easiest strategy of waiting them out.
Managing their decline is not just a way 1 street of piling on pressure, its also needed to have some basic dialogue.