All is fair in love and war.
Those of you who are disturbed by the fact that we now have an administration that seeks to impose its will, or at least more leverage, on China's ability or comfort level in artificially suppressing the value of its currency, thus harming U.S. exporters (and exporters of EVERYTHING), seriously need a splash of ice cold water to your faces to wake you from your apparent deep slumber of naïvité.
In an era where I can guarantee you there will be increasing isolationism and at least some measures and level of trade and policy withdrawal, all in an effort to appease increasingly hostile domestic constituents, you'd have to be completely dogmatic and blind to harken back to the good 'ole days of 'Adam Smith & The Wealth of Nations,' a luxurious topic that we were free to espouse and endorse at a point in time when not only the economies, but the very infrastructures of Japan, Germany, England, France, Italy, and much of the rest of Western Europe lay smoldering in the aftermath of WWII.
It's easy to endorse such grand conceptual schemes and philosophical paradigms as laissez faire capitalism when there is not only no other nation possessing the means and capacity to challenge you economically (let alone militarily).
However, when that hegemony is upset, and serious competitors multiply at a prolific rate, not only threatening your economic vitality, but your military capabilities, that icy cold splash of water that is the reality many of you have yet to experience (for whatever reason) may just shake you from previously held dogmas, and turn you into people as ruthless and pragmatic as those who are trying to take your very livelihoods away.
Keep denying this as the U.S.'s ability to impose its will and project its power is diminished year after year, until you are no longer free, but subjects of foreign powers.
