Short term it basically is a zero sum game. It would also cause havoc in the world markets. It won’t come to it, but China owns trillions of dollars of our debt. They could threaten to sell but that puts the world down the tube.
Gonna need to find someone else to buy $21 billion of our soybeans next year. It will be a rough ride if you are in agriculture.
That said, it won’t happen.
It should happen but a$$hole Free Traitors™ have bribed and propagandized the trade issue so that common sense has long since been washed away. The USA would THRIVE without Chines trade. Short term pain LONG TERM gain.
Here is a warning. Advocating trade with China is technicality not treason but that could change. We get in a hot war with the Norks and China takes their side the you Free Traitors™ better keep your mouths shut or it is sedition and or plain treason.