I do agree with you some what here. But, using government force to manage our imports and exports and government force to make consumers pay more for goods will do what?
Shut off the $ flow to China? Do you think they will just say "OK, no big deal we understand" Or do you think it push up the time table for war and make them even more twitchy?
What do you say to the families that lose everything when the 800 billion export market to China dries up?
They are not prepared yet for all out war. If we boycott all trade with them, as we did with cuba, they will not be able to afford to build more missles, fighters, bombers, nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, troop transports to get accross the Taiwan strait, etc. The money they now get from us, is not going down to the chinese civilian people, it is going to build a war machine. Shut them off, and their plans for war against the US are indefinitely postponed.