You have made the initial unsupported claims....emerging asia (china, vietnam, etc) combined only rate #4, with germany ranked 3rd, and japan ranked 2nd in combined economy(imports and exports) with the good ol’ USofA leading the way...you might wanna find out some of those there pesky old facts before spouting your anti free trade rhetoric
A pesky fact for you, “free trade” zombie:
China leads America in technology exports (that happened several years ago now) ... and the trend is worsening every day.
Tell you what.
Turn your computer over, and share with readers where it was made.
But this discussion is about exports and manufacturing power - making things here and selling them abroad. Manufacturing has been the source - the Fountainhead, if you will - of national power and wealth for centuries. The US was the world's leading exporter for almost a century.
Not any more.
According to the CIA Factbook, we are now #4, ranked after the European Union, China and Germany.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2078rank.html
As Chinese manufacturing eclipses ours, so does its ability to build, maintain and deploy increasingly powerful and adanced military forces. Meanwhile the US is going the way of Great Britain, mired in debt and slipping in power and influence. Chinese money is all over Africa and South America and even Europe. Other countries see the trend and know the momentum is away from America.
Free trade isn't the only reason this is happening (unions, taxes and regulation hurt us too), but free trade has made it possible for China to enrich itself at America's expense. Time to change that.