So anyhow, Donald Trump has a different idea of success story. Dollars are only one side of it. Goods and services and self-respect are the other side of it.
If China had thought that way... which is another way of saying that prosperity comes from heaven, leveraged by work (and hard work will result in a lot of benefit through that leverage)... well, probably its Yangtze would NOT be a sewer, nor would the atmosphere of Peking/Beijing be a cloud of smog.
Both the US and China suffered from a bad concept. Trump is about to spark a revolution in thought in the USA. We don’t begrudge it to the rest of the world, which needs its own Trumps.
I don’t think trade with China has to be viewed bad in total.
If we aren’t demanded to give up our patents, and trade goes both ways, it can be good.
I think we have totally gotten hosed by this point though.