I also agree that the political left in the USA built Red China up, and that is dangerous. It’s an echo of the Marshall Plan, which has resulted in today’s European Union, itself as potentially dangerous as Red China if its current oligarchy turns into an autocracy with one dictator at the top.
But there is no evidence that trade surpluses are a measure of a country doing well, even as a means of leverage against the country with the deficit (if recent reports of China agreeing to buy a great deal more US products are true).
Political left?
EVERYONE is building up China.
Everyone.