Free trade is an ideal, but few countries practice it other than the US , and we can longer afford to have the world free load off us.
Do you get your platitudes from the back of a union flyer? I happen to like my coffee from Brazil, bananas from Ecuador and Chile, etc. because I don't want communist crapholes exporting cocaine by-products and importing communism in my backyard.
China and the Federal Reserve wouldn't own so much of our debt if we didn't create it in the first place.