The issues with China are beyond just economic. China was not dealt with appropriately over these last 30 years of opening up trade - if they had been instead of allowing them to run roughshod over everything, all of the reforms and changes promised may have actually occurred. Instead, China has stolen property, technology, etc. simply to prop up and empower the existing regime. They weren’t changed by the WTO - they changed the WTO. Instead of us influencing them, they influenced us. Instead of them becoming more like Hong Kong, they are making Hong Kong more like them. And so forth. It is a crying shame as it did not have to be this way.
All true. How do tariffs help?