Well to begin, I never voted for Trump so labeling me a Typical Trumper is a complete miss.
As to seeing Both sides blamed evenly just which two sides are you referring to? Mainland China vs. Taiwan? China. vs. USA? Japan/ South Korea. vs Taiwan and Hong Kong.? It is a six sided cube of interrelations.
Sanctions are tried repeatedly and I have not once ever seen a sanctioned country actually reform it's actions satisfactorily due to them.
The Biden administration has shown it is totally incompetent (not that the Trump administration was much better) and when faced with the challenge of China invading Taiwan ,will fail, afraid of the cost to the USA only to find the loss of Taiwan will cost us several times the cost of defending it.
Taiwan is not Afghanistan lead by totally corrupt oligarchs and religious fanatics.