[Trump] claims China has cheated the U.S. out of millions of jobs, billions of dollars all the more. By waving the magic wand of “America First” or as Pompeo now likes to say “confront Communist tyranny,” the administration claims that aggressive foreign policies on the country can return everything “back to normal” and make all these issues go away.

But this is a grave and deeply misleading falsehood. In pursuing an all-embracing vilification of China, the White House and its supporters are deceiving the public as to not only what America’s true problems are, but what they always have been – that is that the United States is a deeply unequal and divided country with staggering levels of wealth inequality, structural racism and underwhelming poverty unprecedented within the developed world.

George Floyd situation shows America’s problems don’t lie with China