I should add that while I do buy stuff made in China, I try hard to buy local goods whenever I can. My kitchen... local cabinet maker (not local installer, but the stuff started as wood in his shop). Tiles? Local artist. New skylights? Entirely made here in NM. Ditto will be my replacement windows (have to do that soon, ugh). Oh, I'm plastering walls now myself. americanclay.com (here in ABQ). Heck, I'm not even looking at Volvos since China bought them from Ford.
The reality is that I think the arguments against it are simplistic, and wrong. Can trade be improved? Sure. I'd need to see counter-arguments, but I could see setting up US tariffs to be reciprocal (we'll tax your imports exactly as you tax ours).
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