Again, the US has absolute control over the terms of debate about China in countries responsible for ~70% of economic output and that leads to material harms for china
Now that's a different statement from before where you pretended that the US has control in debate with all countries, and now that's only
about China and with
some randomly guessed 70%. Much more tempered and reasonable sentence than before.
It
does indeed lead to some economic harm to China; if it didn't, the US would be completely toothless and an unworthy rival. After all, this is an old lion fighting with the last of its tools being dulled with each use against a young lion that can't stop growing, both in size and in tool repertoire. There are quickly diminishing returns for such efforts as 1. countries realize more and more that China is the rising economic power they need to make the transition to and 2. the US loses more and more leverage in places that it inadvertently and ironically helped China become self-sufficient and leading. The US is driven to such measures out of desperation as it sees little potential in itself to grow so its best efforts are wasted on trying to keep a vastly more dynamically rising challenger down. And finally, despite whatever harm the US could manage, China still comes out the top growing major economy by far and also the world's number one trading nation by both amount and growth. This is American desperation vs Chinese imminence.
