Americans are, of their own free will, making purchases that are in their best interests, and the interests of their families. For some reason you have a problem with that. Why you think these people need to be protected from themselves is a mystery.
one country which may be rapidly turning into an authentic, true adversary.
Not all that long ago, the same was said of the Soviet Union. How'd that work out?
Either we head off that adversarial relationship now, and find a way to become friends.
Having strong and wide economic ties with a specific country makes the two countries more adversarial? That's not what history shows.
China is potentially turning into a monster.
You preferred China under Mao where tens of millions starved to death?
Or we fight it later for all the marbles.
You want to keep a country poor and isolated to prevent it from lashing out at the rest of the world? Again, your grasp of history is seriously lacking.
France is more protectionist than China, so will you do the same to their imports? Clearly, you want to foment a trade war without any understanding of what could follow. For more, read a little European history. Like I said, your solutions are based on emotion, and you are woefully uninformed.
There are two significant differences between China and Russia.
Well three really.
1) China greatly emphasizes education. Moreso even than America. Russia had military equipment (still does) but not a huge, growing ever-larger industry of all sorts.
2) China is taking over our manufacturing. No equivalence with Russia. Zero. China is taking over manufacturing from the bottom up. And WE ARE HELPING EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
3) China’s population is roughly four times as large as America’s.
There are more, but those are probably the most significant.