What you've written was true in 2016, but is not true now.
Only 15% of Chinese exports now go to the US.
As for food, there are two other big food producers, Australia and Brazil. Australia has an advantage in that it's a big island, so it's easy to have good biosecurity. Australian beef is superior to American beef as it's grass-fed, disease free, and doesn't contain steroids or hormones.
The smart play would have been to make an ally of Australia to block exports of food to China. But despite the USA having a rare large trade surplus with Australia, Trump put tariffs on them. Because he's a bully and a fool.
As a result, the Australians are furious with the US and have signed contracts with China to supply them with beef and pork.
I think Trump has dementia and the Republicans should have chosen another candidate.
I really disagree with you on matters of practical import, as well as philosophically. I'll address only the former here. China is on the verge of starvation continually. There's a whole lot of degraded formerly arable land China is trying to rehab, but that isn't yet rehabbed. China is in process of creating the ability to produce food on that land, and is actually doing amazingly well, for instance, by raising salmon in the desert of Xinjiang - an astounding accomplishment.
Oz and Brazil cannot make up the shortfall from the US. A couple years ago the scouring of food China could grasp was illustrated by the massive disappearance of donkeys from Africa, because China was butchering them. China purchased Smithfield Pork to mitigate it's food supply problem. These things don't substantially address the issue China has, however, and China won't address that issue because it is dependent on preventing the actual solution, which is decentralization.
Aquaponics can resolve the issue, and a whole bunch of other problems that come along with food supply fragility, regarding quality control. When supplies are short, quality is sacrificed, and issues notorious in China involving all kinds of taints are worsening. The CCP needs the population to be dependent on it for it's survival, and thus cannot solve it's food supply problem by decentralizing food production with aquaponics. This makes the CCP dependent on US food supplies for it's survival.
While you claim China's exports are a negligible fraction of it's total, that's very misleading, because China is on the edge, deliberately, because you have to be at that bleeding edge to develop as rapidly as China has been, and intends to continue to be. The reality is that sudden drop in exports is utterly existential for the CCP, and it will come to the table or resort to war. War is the last thing China needs, and it is not ready. The only option for the CCP is to find a way to alter it's bleeding edge market development to reduce tariffs on US products, and quickly. How to do this without losing face is the only problem that hasn't been solved, but I suspect it will be solved pretty soon, and the tariff war will end.
I wish China was in that good of a position.
What i see is that China has a LOT of excess production, and they are hurting.
I also see them doing everything they can to get food from anywhere on the globe.
What is sad is that America has lots of grass fed beef… that is shipped overseas. We get the corn and hormone fed beef here in the States.
I do not believe we could have allied with Australia. Like, Australia's govern-cement is very controlled by the WEF. And the WEF wants America to fall, to move the center of power. When i talk to Aussies, they would like to be allies with America, but when we talk about govern-cements, they seem to take pride in going against what Aussies want. (But so is The US)
Trump is not a Repulsivekin. Basically, there is MAGA, and what is left of the RINOs. The Dumbocrap party is dead. So, there really was no other candidate running. The next big election will be interesting. Will the Dumbocraps revive themselves? Will there be an actual MAGA party? Will the Repulsivekin party continue to exist?
And there are prophecies that Trump is the last The US president.