Obama's TPP was a much better counter to China than anything the Trump administration accomplished. Too bad your "tarred and feathered," President didn't have the vision to take effective steps, and instead took loud, boisterous, and largely ineffective measures instead.
Once his advisors realized the reality in , they begged to get back into the TPP at the original terms, but that ship had sailed. [https://www.ft.com/content/bc65dd72-3f2d-11e8-b7e0-52972418f...]
Nothing trump did China wise ever made up for this disastrous failure, and all of his tariffs hurt Americans even more than they bothered China.