News Analysis On Jan.15, 2020, then-President Donald Trump announced a historic trade deal with Beijing that had two deadlines for increased imports, summing to $200 billion, from China. Both deadlines passed after the election of Joe Biden, yet his administration has done nothing concrete in response. President Biden’s trade representative told Congress in a new report that the administration “is prepared” to do something, but Biden is actually letting Beijing slide. That’s because China’s equivalent of crack cocaine for consumers feels so good—until it kills us. We love buying cheap stuff on Amazon. Corporations love the profits. Politicians do exactly what their voters and campaign contributors want. Everybody shoots up with the illusion that what feels good today, will be good for tomorrow. Not so much, when China uses its profits to build a military and political influence machine capable of defeating America, democracy, and the market-based system on a …