You are making an unfounded assumption that other factors would remain static.

I would rather assert that stopping any trade with China especially, while painful at first would drastically accelerate domestic economic growth.

Globalism is not all its cracked up to be. Division of labor is one thing. Offloading manual labor to virtual slavers, then wondering why it is difficult to be competitive by using domestic manual labor is another.


For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)