China has not been partners in good faith in trade and economic negotiations. They’re an authoritative Communist Dictatorship that enslaves it citizens for the empowerment of the Party
The U.S. and the Western multinational enterprises have enabled and fueled China’s extraordinary quarter century economic and global geopolitical growth. While the U.S. goal is Free Trade, Individual Freedom and Democratic Capitalism. U.S. companies are getting fed up with the force technology transfer by companies doing business in China and the Chinese firms exporting and selling those products in the U.S. market.
China’s Seven Deadly Sins
1. Stop stealing Western intellectual property,
2. Stop forcing technology transfers,
3. Stop hacking U.S. computers,
4. Stop dumping into U.S. and Western markets and putting our companies out of business,
5. Stop state-owned enterprises from heavy subsidies,
6. Stop the importation of fentanyl, and
7. Stop the currency manipulation
They’ve reneged on the Hong Kong autonomy agreement, they reneged on the agreement signed in the Oval Office with President Obama regarding the militarization of the South China Sea. In 2015, China’s President Xi stood with President Obama in the Rose Garden at the White House and promised (lied) that “there is no intention to militarize” a collection of disputed reefs in the South China Sea known as the Spratlys.
President Obama stated on his way to the 2016 G20 Summit in Hangzhou China. That “If you sign a treaty that calls for international arbitration around maritime issues, the fact that you’re bigger than the Philippines or Vietnam or other countries … is not a reason for you to go around and flex your muscles,” Obama added, according to Reuters. “You’ve got to abide by international law.”
Military analysts have criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for having been too timid in countering China aggression and militarization in the South China Sea. Critics, for instance, have faulted the previous administration for not conducting more frequent freedom of navigation patrols. “China’s militarization of the South China Sea has been a gradual process,
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/world/asia/south-china-sea-navy.html