[Last Dakotan]

Our folly with China was in deluding ourselves into believing that by throwing open U.S. markets to goods made in China, we would create a partner in prosperity. What we got, after $4 billion in trade deficits with Beijing, was a gutted U.S. manufacturing base and a nationalistic rival eager to pay back the West for past humiliations

100 years from now, this will be seen as one of history's greatest mistakes

[Dr. Sivana]

Pat missed a zero. Our trade deficit with Red China is closer to $40 billion.

Near the end of the article he tals about a cumulative $11 trillion trade deficit since GHWB. I have NO idea how he got that figure (especially if he has the deficit with Red China at $4 billion).