Your understanding of what China is doing via “free trade” is woeful.
What % of US intellectual property (software, music, firmware, designs, etc) does china actually pay for?
What taxes are put onto US products when they arrive on China’s shore? How about when Chinese products come here?
What punishment has China received for using US high tech products for their military applications, against the trade agreements and US law?
What is an offset? Why does China require them?
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you don’t have any idea that our free trade is actually very poorly managed “managed trade”.
It seems like I'm splitting hairs, but it's nearly impossible to have a serious discussion about "free trade" (just as it is to have a serious discussion about "fair trade") if everyone makes up their definitions on the fly.