The writer is absolutely spot on.  Travel to SE Asia to see first hand what happens to the people in a tiny Country that is swamped by trade with China.  For example, imagine that you built your homes and all of the furniture in it with lumber from hardwood trees.  You did this in a sustainable way for a 1000 years.  Then your country opened up trade with China.  Now you are swept off the land of your ancestors.   Your beautiful forests are clear cut by Chinese loggers, while you are reduced to begging in the streets.  You can no longer afford to use the wood that was yours for centuries.   The forests are disappearing along with clean drinking water and all of the animals that sustained you for millenia.   That is trade with China in all its unfettered glory.
A one way street to hell awaits us if we continue to court trade with China.  Go to SE Asia and see for yourself!