There’s no such thing as a trade ‘surplus’ or ‘deficit’. It’s an invention of unionistas and socialists to gain control over people. Every trade is fully paid for when completed.
If you buy $100 worth of groceries from your grocer there is no surplus or deficit. You got exactly what you paid for. You traded dollars for goods and did so of your own free will and choice. So did the grocer.
Now, set your grocer across the border in Canada and it’s still the same. I’ve taught you this again and again and you still lie about it. Stop lying. Capisce?
Baloney.
America runs a trade deficit with China of 342 billion just last year.
That is still growing. Yes, there is a trade deficit.
A very big, very persistent one.
The grocer wants to kill you and every time you spend money in his store he uses the profit to buy weapons for himself and his friends who also want to kill you. They want to take your house and rape your wife. So yes by all means keep sending money to China.
Your grocer on your side of the border grows produce in highly regulated fields where the soil is tested, the fertilizer is tested, the machinery is tested, the transport is tested, and the workers are your neighbors who are paid like you. Across the border, that grower is pooping in the fields, nothing is clean, the machinery is decrepit, and they're paid subsistence wages.
Your grocer wants to sell across the border to your foreign counterpart but that government says no, they can only buy from their own grocers. But that government wants their grocers to also be able to sell to you. Your government says okay, and then they sell their groceries for $50 because they don't inspect the soil and manufacturing process, and they don't pay their workers the same wage.
-PJ
That's way too simplistic an example of whats going on between China and USA, starting with the notion that America is just a 'customer' and not a competing marketplace.