Change the game completely. Pass a 30% across the board tariff on all imported goods. It will raise $600 billion per year. Importers will demand their overseas factories slash prices which will hurt Chinese economy. Union workers will love it and begin thinking about their bosses slavish devotion to Democrats. Multinational corporations will have to reconsider investment plans and will reallocate capital to the US. US small business will greatly benefit, particularly small manufacturing firms. Put Obama in the uncomfortable position of siding with big business and the Chicoms.
I like that.
One of the early things that the radical Left accomplished was to convince everyone that tariffs were evil and that Smoot-Hawley caused the Great Depression. Tariffs have their place — and we haven’t had anything like “free trade” in a long, long time. The tariff idea you suggest seems long overdue to me.