I understand it’s a fight, and no we definately don’t want to have one hand tied behind our back. The Headline from the story you quoted says “China now powering world’s economy”, which is the same point I was focusing on upthread. How the hell have our leaders put us in this position (rhetorical question I know)?
We (whoever that is) wanted global trade, so now China has defacto control on our economy via trade. And with the premise being a complete farce (Global Warming). It’s going the general direction of EU/RU/CH being the world’s super-powers and I never thought I’d see that in my lifetime. I understand the logic of using the Global Warming Farce to advance other objectives, but I’d say the proof’s in the pudding and the article you and I referenced pretty much spells it out in my eyes. We are a weaker world power and be played, manipulated, controlled by at least 1 commi state, who just happens to be increasing their weapons new and improved higher rate. Those are the concerns I have.
Solution? That’s a funny thing, because we are where we are, how do we reverse course? How much manufacturing and industrial production capability and capacity do we even have left in the United States? I’m afraid I don’t really want to know.
It gets much worse when you think about how they prop up our insane deficit spending by loaning us back the same dollars we send to them in trade, and hold our economy hostage. And the "voters" go on re-electing the same bunch of sold-out self-serving big-spending globalist idiots while devoting what little intelligence they have to the latest exploits of Paris and Lindsay. I don't want to think much about our future either. Right now we're "Livin' in a Fool's Paradise," like the old Mose Allison song says.