It's exactly that simple. Our economy can absorb the hit. Theirs wouold callapse faster than you can say "Mao Tse-tung."
The Chicoms have nuclear warheads pointed at our West Coast. This is not acceptable, even if it is only Hollywood.
They made a treaty that they would not dump their slave labor goods in our country and they went right on doing it. Even liberal "60 Minutes" exposed that.
They are making imperialist therats against the Republic of China.
They intend to take ove rthe whole Pacific Rim.
And they are perhaps the most tyrannical state on Earth, and one of the worst human-rights violators.
They must be stopped. They cannot be allopwd to become a countervailing power to the United States, which is what they plan.
The only real weapons we have are to arm the ROC to the hilt (which we should do) and to cut off our trade with them (whcih we should do.)
To add to your list: some of them think the entire planet is theirs by right.