There wasn’t nearly that much trade with China as there is today in Reagan’s day. China’s GDP was miniscule in the 80’s. Reagan had to fight JAPAN’s trade surplus, not China’s.
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Still he continued a horrible policy that the traitor Nixon established. Reagan also did NOTHING about 200 dead marines and stood by while the world chastised Rushdie for his exercise of free speech. Just saying Reagan was not perfect by any measure.