Remember when the politics of this issue was spun as xenophobic? And racist? And now it's normalized, popular and spun as accepted and necessary?

Funny how times change... and no one notices?

Is this really xenophobia?

China does not provide equal access to their markets, why should we provide it to ours?

And the specifically pertains to a loophole that would be getting closed for everyone...

That's the point. It's not. But it was painted as such because it made for great (cough cough) "journalism".