The US doesn't actually want any trade deal at all, it is all about decoupling the two economies since they believe at this point that is the best strategic move is a quick untanglement. Hence everything is designed to intentionally irritate China in order to provoke it to retaliate and thus speed up the decoupling process even more, which is the true goal here. America views this as its crossing the Rubicon, since it knows that inaction will mean certain defeat. It believes right here and right now is the point of inflection and if it doesn't do whatever it takes to contain China using any and all means necessary it will forever lose the initiative and never get the chance again. For this reason, Huawei ban will never get reversed.
Also, Huawei could be just the tip of the iceberg, I'm sure right about now all the tech companies in China are getting together with the Chinese government to work out a plan forward. Huawei making its own Android alternative isn't just about Huawei anymore, it will be leveraged as an insurance policy against the credible threat of Trump administration putting more Chinese tech firms onto the list, such as Oppo, DJI, etc etc Once a homegrown OS or chip ability is developed, it will be adopted and used by all Chinese companies to help shelter the coming storms, the only hope and only way forward is for all of China to stick together. The Chinese domestic consumer market is surpassing that of the US, it no longer makes sense to prop up the unsustainable petrodollar hegemony at the expense of its own BRI plans... Geopolitically it is a zero sum game, and at the very least, Asians should be in charge of the affairs of Asia. This is why MIC2025 is more important than ever for China in terms of an existential perspective.
At a macroeconomic and geopolitical level it is a zero sum game. China rises at the expense of the American empire and vice versa. The focus now is on 5G, the Internet of Things, AI, big data, and the kind of next level automation and intelligence multiplier factor that comes with it. From self driving cars to helpdesk and call centers to all facets of the traditional workforce, increasingly neural networks/machine learning and AGI are able to do tasks better than humans, and in a much more scalable way, reducing many jobs from janitors to CEO high level decision making to mere electric or electricity costs to run the deep learning inference models and associated applications etc. This sort of efficiency in productivity should have brought about massive increases in standards of living if it were for the fact that globally we have approached and hit the ceiling to the limits of growth, and things like climate and environmental degradation, peak oil, diminishing eroei etc offest even the greatest productivity achievements that could be accomplished by a super AI. The basic premise of a UBI society is that artificial intelligence handles the bulk of the "work", ushering into massive abundance due to productivity, and we humans enjoy the resource allocation. But this ideal scenario is predicated upon an environment in which the global resources haven't yet hit hard constraints.
To but it bluntly, automation screwing people out of a job in masse could barely even cover for the hard constraints in limits to resource extraction/availability imposed upon us by the laws of physics, much less enable the sort of redistribution of abundance in that sort of utopia society that most people ideally are hoping for. AI screwing people out of a job will be a increasingly necessary thing to keep the lights on and the fabric of society and civilization tenable, but the displaced will never be given the reallocation of wealth that never even existed in the first place and doesn't in fact exists at all to give out. Certainly in the US homeland, the trend of shrinking middle class will only continue accelerate until the elite and the concentration of power decide that it is in powers best interest to do a culling of sorts. The erosion of rights and civil liberties will certainly accelerate in that direction.
How do you guys see this playing out?