Focus on long term key to China-US trade

Trade issues pale in importance compared to the need to maintain good economic, political and people-to-people relations between China and the United States.

Most of the economic concerns are short-term and relatively small, but the China-US relationship will shape the state of the world for decades.

I'm an American living in China and married to a Chinese woman, so I have a strong interest in and love for both countries. The deterioration in economic relations over the last 10 years or so frightens me. Let's look at what is important, and what's not.