This is why we used to elect and appoint officials who were "the best of us". What we have now is a government that is signalling that they want to do right by their base while doing things without research that will do the opposite. The worst is that both the officials and their base lack the ability to reason or sustain attention long enough to determine the cause and effect of decisions like these. When Intel and Motorola are belly up and the US is out the bailout money Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm Huiwei etc., banking on Chinese tech investment made by qualified officials, will be taking all the money and jobs overseas. Isolationist policy could only work in this day and age with extremely competent leadership and highly valuable reseources. After years of Oligarchy, the US has neither. Isolationism may have been fine in the 19th century, but few people had flushing toilets then. The 21st century is completely different.