American consumers who purchase telecommunications equipment simply pay for the products. However, Chinese consumers who buy American-made telecommunications equipment pay a tariff an unnecessary and unfair tax on top of the price of the product, which makes it difficult for American companies to sell their products in China. Critics maintain that China has a history of eliminating tariffs only after they are no longer needed to keep American products out, because either the product is obsolete or there is a superior Chinese product available. However, every trade barrier and tariff removed on a type of product like telecommunications equipment is a trade barrier and tariff that will no longer harm the next generation of American-made products. Normal trade relations would work to remove tariffs and trade barriers when they are a real threat, not after the fact.
Continued growth demands new ideas and the innovation of new products.
American high-tech workers excel in this respect. It is only sensible that a high rate of growth also demands a larger marketplace for these new ideas and new products. There is little doubt that China is the largest marketplace on Earth.