If other countries shut the US out of their markets the US has to respond. Ask Cisco how free China is with Huawei as competition.
I'll sound stupid saying this, but I don't get it.
“If other countries shut the US out of their markets the US has to respond.”
Perhaps, but other countries wouldn’t be able to take advantage of us to anywhere near the degree that they do if we had more sensible tax, labor, and environmental policies. China is a vulture waiting to feed on our corpse, but China is not the disease that is killing us.