&gt;  His rhetoric generally points to leveling the playing field rather than simply banning foreign imports.<p>His rhetoric is consistently vague, which allows people to read what they want into it.<p>&gt; He talks a good talk about screwing the Chinese, but when push comes to shove there&#x27;s nothing he&#x27;d be able to do about the trade imbalance.<p>There&#x27;s plenty he could do about the trade imbalance; for instance, net imports necessarily must be balanced by a capital inflow; obstruct the capital inflow and you prevent the trade imbalance.<p>Of course, doing so would likely be disastrous, but its not impossible.