Matej

In my opinion, this is more about sending a message that US is finally getting over its eight years of paranoia and isolationism, and is not afraid to play on the same level as everyone else.
You guys know that China just straight refuses to import a huge amount of American products, right? America, who is their biggest customer, has been a complete pushover as far as trade goes.
US will never produce something as cheap is it can be made somewhere else. Saving a measly few thousands factory jobs makes almost no difference in the big picture. The US is mostly a service economy anyway. However, convincing China, among other countries, to import American products, now that would be huge. Think how big of a market just China itself is. America has been trying to go about it the pleading softie way, but that does not work on China.