And the USA still has a latent potential to sell to the world, too. It still manages to do so with food, and one of the things negotiated with China is to sell American meats there. China of its own self can’t come up practically with everything it needs to enter the first world either. It even stinks at pollution control technology, literally stinks — things that the USA takes for granted today, and is rich in. If an area of the USA got like Beijing, or like any major Chinese river, the scandal would be unbelievable. And we take it for granted.
Put a great negotiator at the helm, and there are more ways to break even or better than break even. This isn’t yesteryear, and we can’t go there anyhow. We wouldn’t fit yesteryear. We’ve grown.
Read some damn history you dolt.