I guess, as a good capitalist, you would have preferred selling produce to the British in 1776 for good silver, to selling produce to American toops for continental paper.
While we're on the subject of silver dollars, would you make thirty pieces of silver.......
There's a limit to the benefits of pure economic gain, even in a capitalist system.
Sending your dollars overseas to help arm a dangerous enemy is one of them.
Worrying about the Chinese as an enemy before radical Islamism is destroyed is a bit like worrying about winning the Super Bowl when you haven't yet won your conference.