> It should be no surprise to anyone observing trump since he took office that the end goal was always to decouple from China
If we assume what is said is valid (a huge assumption, I know) and ignore the contradictions: They claim that China is able to pass into the US through Canada, Mexico, etc. and that the tariffs there are to put pressure on those governments to also put the squeeze on China in kind.
Then why did he just lift them on everyone except China?