I’m sorry but this myopic evaluation misses much we need to understand of China.
Since the Chinese Dynasty, China has been able to “produce” everything they require. As China needed nothing of imports, and always having abundant exports creating a balance of trade problem.
We see it in the history of the “Opium Wars” by Britain for a forced export—and eventually the demise of the totalitarian sovereignty of the Dynasty.
Here is the clincher we must remember—the totalitarian rule of the communist is the same as the Dynasty—except for one thing. They had no access to the “markets” of the western world.
Here is the problem with the insanity of communism. Instead of providing a person with opportunity, Mao was a “dictator of the proletariat” t
CHANGSHA, China -- On an island in the Xiang River stands a massive bust of the late Chinese ruler Mao Zedong as a young man, his long hair blowing gracefully in an imaginary wind. Good thing for him he's a safe distance from the Expo Central China. If he could see it, he would be tearing his hair out.
As leader of the communist revolution of 1949, Mao was dedicated to class struggle and the elimination of property. He created a totalitarian society in which everyone wore the same clothes, chanted the same slogans and -- as far as anyone knew --...
The error was Nixon opening up this nation to the exports of that nation. The answer, as it has always been in the history of mankind. If your enemy is destroying their own society—don’t interfere. That is the error of this nation. We have too many who have never made or produced anything—even to the point we have politicians saying profit is bad—that are using government…not in the American design…but in the design of cultural communism—destroying this nation.