because the administration has been repeating the same patterns over pretty much its entire existence.

Dont worry though, the rest of the entire world gets access to better chinese models :-), once they get a taste for those the US has lost their little trade game and the future truly belongs to China.

Its almost like they are serving it up on a silver platter.

ofc they are not, they are just betting all in their models will be better, which is unlikely. (just look at the chinese law and all the names atop of advanced AI papers...)