This is pure bogus. Without free trade with China most of today&#x27;s smartphones would simply be too expensive, in the reach of only 1% of the people (yeah, that number is taken out of my a.s, but you get the idea). With no smart-phones there would be no &quot;unicorns&quot;, there would be less profits for FB, Google and Apple itself.<p>And there&#x27;s also the fact that you cannot &quot;price in&quot; into any economic equations the improvement in life conditions brought in to the general public by the use of smart-phones.<p>Economics as a science needs a total re-think, or at least they should tone down their end-of-the-world statements.