One cannot exclude China in business. Our economic future depends on it. China just successfully sent a train to England. See: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/14/china-silk-road-trade-train-rolls-london

What great timing for China as Trump turns inward. They are expanding their railway network into Europe and other countries to ship goods. If the US attempts to blockade the SCS, the Chinese have another route to carry on their trade while they go to war with the US.

Our mutual funds, stocks of various Canadian and American companies, our pension funds are heavily invested in enterprises involved in the China trade. The components that go into various widgets we build here are majority sourced from China.

If the costs of the building components that go into various widgets raises, our companies here are at a disadvantage. Profits to the bottomline will drop. Share values drop. Our retirement nest egg shrinks.