The "complexity" is all inside your head darlin...you want to counter Chinese "aggression" stop giving them easy access to our markets and technology.
you have told me nothing about the facts on the ground that persuaded you to reduce this multi-faceted problem to purely one-dimensional economic terms.
Good grief...its not like the United States doesn't have a track record in this regard. Does NAFTA ring any bells? How's that working out?
Plus your "conclusion" apparently leaves America in a toothless, supine position WRT to rest of the world. Which since WWII, has depended on America as the moral center of world order, by virtue of its tremendous cultural power, and the economic and military power that flows from that.
You'll need a ten foot spreader for that amount of horse manure hon...there's a cheap 'Made in China' one on sale over at the Walmart. Ask the minimum wage floor stocker which one is the best...that is if he can speak English.
I gather America is no longer allowed to be America in your book.
On the contrary, the United States became a world class power precisely because it protected its industries...go figure.
I do not think on the basis of evidence from you (so far) that you see the problem in such terms.