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US only loves free market if they're the winners.

So does China. E.g.,

China goes beyond protectionism and even threatens other countries from doing their own strategy.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/renewables/chi...

https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/chinas-use-unoff...

The authors conclude that non-tariff barriers were a primary instrument used by China in the U.S.-China trade war, with implications for China’s trade conflicts with other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

So does the EU

https://ahdb.org.uk/europe-market-access-and-barriers-to-tra...

Interestingly, champions of free trade come out only when the US puts in any place the tiniest of restrictions.

Which free-market-loving country doesn't?

EU as a whole? Did you see the number of mutually beneficial trade agreements they signed in past 15 years to promote free trade on either ends?

But that's not a country. And in their case it's also true that policy set up by the structure can go against the interests of individual countries.

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