IF it brings jobs back? We have turned the corner from a manufacturing base to a service base, so I very much doubt we will create many jobs where technology, i.e. robots have replaced people.
We are, and have been a consumer based economy since the end of WW II. And yet, retail jobs are being eliminated as we speak. Shoppers shop at home on their computers, and UPS / Fed Ex trucks are ubiquitous on our roadways.
Maybe its time to consider new ways, instead of seeking what may have been successful in the past?
And yet in your op, YOU, sound the alarm of a threat to our pig farmers, an industry that was developed, literally, in the Stone Age.
I sounded the Alarm? I guess so, and like some other people you'll choose to ignore it. China lighted the fire, I reported seeing the flames, and you and others may one day feel the heat , yet.
Denial ends when one touches a hot stove - though some never learn from experience, vicariously or in the ER.
In your op, you have attacked and ridiculed the idea of basing policy on protection our manufacturing base, as it is of "the past"
while advocating that we should protect the interests of our agricultural and animal husbandry segments of our economy, which are VASTLY more of "the past", than manufacturing.
You're wrong. We need to protect our intellectual property, not manufacturing. More and more manufacturing is becoming less labor intensive as more robots and computers take over what were once jobs done by human hands.
Instead of picking a fight with China, we need to keep the diplomatic lines open. China is pragmatic, and looks to the future. Trump can't see beyond today, he is impulsive and intractable, he does not listen to others, 'cept maybe Putin, and can't get alone with anyone who does not kiss his fat ass.