Remember though, China is still a totalitarian dictatorship at least as bad as the USA. It's not the same situation.
But a huge fraction of our workforce is immigrants who have given up their homeland and distanced themselves from their families and communities in search of opportunities here. The fact that we're driving them away now does not bode well for our future economy.
Did you mean creating wealth?
I'm not talking about land speculation. I'm talking about creating businesses and jobs for everyone. I'm talking about hard labor that's necessary for our society to run. We're not better off picking crops while China's tech economy becomes #1.
It's actually surprising that this point is so hard to understand.
Yet. It is not even two months in, we have not seen nothing yet.
As a practical matter, the things that affected me the most when I traveled are the great firewall, language barriers, and time zone issues.
For example, I don’t protest the government. If that was an important part of my life China would be a bad choice.
Probably another question you might ask is what are the things you’d be able to do in China that you wouldn’t in the US.