“Illegal immigration should be ended, not mitigated; the border sealed, not reprioritized. Economic engagement with China should be ended, not rethought.” (Kevin D. Roberts, Project 2025 Foreword, Page 44-45.)

Let’s start with economic engagement with China. 

“The U.S. and China are economically interdependent. The U.S. is China’s largest export market, and China is the U.S.’s largest import market. China relies on the U.S. for roughly $580 billion of exports per year, total foreign direct investments of $124 billion, joint ventures in high-growth industries, and more. The U.S. relies on China for economic growth in investments, people flow, idea flows, and trade in key industries. Estimates suggest that decoupling would cost the American aviation industry up to $875 billion by 2038; the semiconductor industry up to $159 billion and 100,000 jobs; the medical services industry more than $479 billion over the next decade; and more.” – Source Kenneth Gatten III, Penn State¹

In August 2019, Trump “hereby ordered”² companies to find an alternative to doing business in China. It was not immediately clear that this was an order, since he tweeted these wishes rather than doing anything officially. Point being, Trump supports these policies, even if (last time) he was ineffective at enacting them. This time, they have a better plan.

In any case, the government “hereby ordering” private businesses to pull their factories out of China sounds an awful lot like the government controlling the means of production. There’s an official phrase for that. That phrase is “command economy.”³ Command economies are controlled by the government rather than by the free market. Examples of countries that have had command economies include Cuba, North Korea, and the former Soviet Union.