I think his idea is that if other competing countries (namely China) won't break up their big tech companies, so with US companies broken up, they won't be able to compete against the foreign behemoths. The US already can't compete at all with China in electronic hardware and manufacturing.

> The US already can't compete at all with China in electronic hardware and manufacturing.

This isn't because the US broke up their chip monopolies, though. This is because chip companies believed they could save money by shipping their expertise overseas and building things there instead. And they were right. They only had to put the US's economic future in jeopardy to do it.

I'm not talking about chip companies, I mean all electronic hardware: other components, PCBs, etc., are mostly all made in Asia, except for ridiculously expensive stuff made primarily for the military. There's no way that iPhones could be economically made in America, for instance.

>I think his idea is that if other competing countries (namely China) won't break up their big tech companies,

I think there's two big things wrong with this. For one China is actually breaking up its tech companies or even culling entire sectors, like education tech, as they do in AI, this kind of argument is basically just American oligopolists inventing a red scare to stave off regulation.

Secondly American companies have a lot of trouble abroad, in gigantic markets like the EU and increasingly India and Japan with stricter privacy regulation on the way because they're so large. So if anything, American anti trust would send a good signal to most markets that the US is in line with global trends.

But that's false - China broke up Ant/AliBaba. The CCP doesn't want a single company controlling their entire economy any more than the US does - granted not for exactly the same reasons

You have no idea what you're talking about. China has been cracking down on it's capitalist class/entrepreneurs 100x what the US gov has done.