We are still buying WAY too much from other nations and financing it with credit. It really doesn’t matter that China imports it first from, say, Vietnam.
Credit for investment is one thing. Credit for consumption is another. It is unsustainable. If the crunchy greens were really interested in “sustainability”, that is where they would concentrate instead of trying to turn America into a nation with no energy or industrial capability of its own.
We cannot have a vibrant economy without an industrial base. Steel, energy, and mining have all but left the U.S. There is a company called Rosemont Copper that is trying to open a mine in SE AZ. This mine will bring billions of dollars to AZ. The Greenies are fighting it tooth and nail, of course.