Again, what's your point in trying to change the topic of the discussion? You certain Xi is going to further trash his own economy merely to further hurt the US economy?

For that matter, I think your original proposition has been partly proven wrong, the traffic jams at West Coast ports have deprived the US of timely container deliveries from the PRC and Asia in general. Some high value low weight and volume stuff got through via air, but somehow we continued to operate a modern technological industrial civilization.