There are a lot of benefits of free trade. One that doesn´t usually get mentioned is the number of people who are lifted out of extreme poverty.

When all economists agree -- they´re probably wrong

Another advantage of trade with China not mentioned herein...

Cheap, shoddy, unsafe Chinese goods make it likely that some Americans won´t live long
enough to ever need Obamacare.

Silver lining...
It´s an ill wind that blows no good.

Nobody´s making anyone buy Chinese goods. The problem described is one of lazy public employee union inspectors who can´t be bothered to do their jobs to inspect, not free trade.

Perhaps. Perhaps not. I promise that you might have a tough time proving the unmixed blessing of this, to those whose livelihoods vanished when their employers decamped for places like Mexico and Honduras. Been there.
Ross Perot was widely vilified by the country club Republicans for warning of the "sucking sound" that would naturally result from Bush 41´s push of NAFTA (and, ultimately, the North American Union). But he was right. Are ever-cheaper toys worth it?

I don´t have a problem with free trade if it´s mutual.

Competitive industries survive, thrive and make a killing. Noncompetitive industries demand government protection, government bailouts and all manner of special privileges to make up for the fact that they can´t compete and buyers don´t want their stuff at the prices they insist on charging. It´s hard reality but true. There´s a reason we don´t have so many buggywhip factories anymore. It´s now a specialty. Buggywhip gear-turners had to move on, they couldn´t sit around and demand a taxpayer bailout.

Are these the same economists who are Keyeasian economists? We all saw how that wasteful goobermint worked out.