By this logic, US should wisen up and go protectionist/isolationist against China (ban TikTok, tariffs on cheap products to make them on par with US goods with better environmental and labor regulations) and EU (no more subsidizing their GDP by defending global trade).
No it doesn't follow. I have absolutely no clue where you're getting that from.
The point was that exporting low-margin high-labor goods and importing high-margin low-labor goods with addictive properties and possibly even negative value is a bad deal for your economy. Especially if the latter could be trivially provided domestically, but isn't due to existing network effects, or shouldn't exist at all (in the case of addictive substances).
You're arguing against the import of very low margin labor-intensive physical goods. How did you get there? I have no idea.
