If it takes being protectionist to stop the PRC's military machine from growing then so be it.
"If it takes being protectionist to stop the PRC's military machine from growing then so be it."
You have to face that the paradigm in this world is shifting as information sharing becomes faster and faster and the world comes closer together...we are all becoming one...national soverignity will give way to individual soverignity as the most important thing to preserve. You seem very fixated on the macro outlook when the world is evolving to the micro outlook. National interests don't mean anything anymore.