America is Already at War with China

This feels like The Art of War. Will crying uncle regarding President Trump's tariff's help or hurt the American populus' future?

In The Art of War, Chinese warlord Sun Tzu makes clear that if one can starve his enemy of food, while he is well supplied, his enemy will fall.

Does the world's imbalance of trade and levy's against America represent our enemy being well supplied, while America's industry, towns and people starve? Consider this article. Would numbers 1, 4, 6 & 8 be problems if America had not exported our ingenuity, production, and manufacturing to other nations?