Is There a Justification for Taking Similar Courses of Action?

There could be two very different justifications for taking similar courses of policy. I'm not super sympathetic to the economically protectionist account of giving and coddling the American worker. What I'm talking about is the national security side of the line. And actually it turns out that a lot of these policies can point in the same direction. But when China is viewing economic policy and military policy as two sides of the same coin, we got to treat it as a national security question.