This may leave me not only with no one to stand with, it may simply leave nowhere to stand at all. It is possible that my comments are contradictory, but the reality is quite complicated. And we have no more than scratched the surface.
Individual businessmen may salivate at the concessions the US has been able to win and want them etched in stone. But it is up to the US capitalist state to make sure these concessions are enforceable and that individual deals don't violate the collective interests of the capitalist class and the national security, i.e., the US' standing as the lone superpower. Just as Doug argued that the Fed must look after the long term interests of the US capitalist class even if they are clamoring for interest rate cuts, the US capitalist state must play a similar role with China. I don't make much of the conflict between Congress and the President, business lobbies and anti China activists. They are just looking after different parts of US imperialism, and trying to forge the best way forward.
Yours, Rakesh