One of the things then-President Donald Trump hyper-focused on was America's economic competition with China. In fact, it was such a huge concern for Trump that his saying "Chynah" became an internet meme. 

But current President Joe Biden doesn't seem to remember any of that. 

According to The Hill, Biden seems to believe that it never even "occurred" to Trump to get tough on China: 

The president also said to boost competition with China, he has revitalized partnerships in the Pacific with countries including India, Australia, South Korea and the Philippines, and he has advanced technologies that can’t be sent to China in order to protect U.S. national security.

“For all this tough talk on China, it never occurred to my predecessor to do any of that,” Biden said.

“The bottom line is, I want fair competition with China, not conflict, and we’re in a stronger position to win the economic competition of the 21st century against China or anyone else because we’re investing in America and American workers again,” he added.

The president also argued that Trump and Republicans are wrong with their rhetoric that China is a country on the rise.

“Trump simply doesn’t get it,” he said.

In truth, Trump came down on China so hard that the left got nervous on more than one occasion and claimed that Trump was going to do damage to the United States with all the tariffs he was passing. It was one of the first things he got up to when he first entered office. 

Trump's trade war with China saw China blinked first, with China's President Xi Jinping saying publicly that he was willing to lower barriers to the United States importation of goods and protecting intellectual property rights. They were even willing to strike a deal with car imports. 

Trump was so hard on China that he told the World Health Organization that if they didn't cut their loyalties to China then the U.S. would cut funding to the WHO permanently, which he did, and which Biden reversed. 

Near the end of Trump's term, he had rolled out plans for China to be completed during his second. These plans included a massive disconnect from China with tax incentives for companies to pull out of China and denying federal contracts to businesses that outsource their labor to China. Overall, he wanted to return one million jobs to the U.S. from China. 

Biden is way off, as usual. I'm not sure if he's lying or he's just forgotten, both of which are equally feasible. 

What I do know is that Biden's toughness on China goes from being relatively good to absolutely horrible. As Mike Miller wrote in January, the Biden administration didn't see fit to track how much farmland China was buying up in our own country: 

The Biden administration is not only failing to properly track such ownership; it doesn't appear to even have a plan to begin tracking that data — according to an investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Moreover, according to a GAO report, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has not consistently shared timely data on foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land as required under the 1978 Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA). 

Food security is a pretty important part of national security and yet the Biden administration doesn't seem overly concerned, which tracks. 

Perhaps he could actually pay attention to what Trump was doing and take a page out of the guy's book.