How is your desire to raise my taxes a “strawman?” Seriously . . . you need to come up with a better response than “strawman.” In your language, does “strawman” mean “I can’t think of an intelligent response, so I’ll try to bluff my way out of it?”
OK how about this approach, since you seem stuck.
China’s market is not open.
China’s market is in fact quite closed - to everything China is capable of making. Only those things which they cannot (yet) make and exclude also.
America’s market is open.
Which country, owes a trillion dollars, to which?
Which country, is growing and has a massive world-class manufacturing base?
Hint: Better start learning to speak Mandarin.