second tactic was to rebuild at home. To Biden, that meant deep investment in America and the reinvigoration of its domestic economy. Biden said that his vision of competition and survival was very different from Trump’s “America First.” It certainly didn’t include the go-it-alone approach, isolationism, or the air of xenophobia that had permeated Trump’s term. But Biden’s approach shared with Trump’s a conviction that the only way to counter China was by building up capabilities in the United States that had gone fallow. Both men seemed fine with tariffs. (While Trump visited coal mines,
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