Here’s a thought experiment for you: would the country be as concerned about the effects of globalization if the lost manufacturing jobs had gone to the UK, instead of to China?
Didn’t think so.
The rise of China, and its increasingly aggressive and repressive behavior, are definitely legitimate concerns for America and its allies (to the extent we still have any). It is undeniable that China owes its greater strength largely to the effects of trade agreements signed over the last 20 years. Globalization and the Chinese challenge are not, however, the same phenomenon, and do not call for the same response. It would be a mistake to forego all of the benefits of globalization when the real issue is more narrow than that.