I don't see how bans on imports produced by non-unionized, terrorized or child labor will improve the conditions of workers. Confer the experience of Bangladeshi child laborers released into the black hole of incomprehensible destitution after the Harkin Bill. Your concern with the Chinese working class is a thin veneer.
You refuse to give any quantitative estimate of how much increased imports from the third world accounts for the growing percentage of low wage jobs in total employment in the US (see the Wood/Lawrence debate to which James Galbraith has made a contribution); thus, you play on the common psychological mechanism of all embattled workers to externalize the source of their problem on foreign ruling classes, thereby allowing alliance with its own ruling class (again the new common sense seems to be that foreign ruling classes are responsible for our real unemployment because they have forced 'our' companies to relocate by imposing trade barriers and using very cheap labor).
Plus, you left econ type guys sense that deficit spending has come up against political and economic limits (see Mattick, Marx and Keynes: the limits of the mixed economy), so you are not left with any solution to real unemployment but aggressive national trade politics.
And what do you hear about aircraft, that China wants some parts of the production process to be located in China in order to ease the transfer of tech and ensure the employment of some local labor? So you think these jobs rightfully belong to Americans who under the brave leadership of Sweeney should thus export all unemployment abroad. At any rate, you admit here that the chief concern is not the unemployment effect from cheap Chinese exports but maintainence of an international division of labor that maintains American centealisation over the highest technology while the rest of the world suffers ever worse terms of trade. Not social imperialism? Please.
So, yes, you are not fighting to open up China but to export unemployment as your chief solution to the problems of American labor given the limits of your favored fiscal and monetary Keynesian solutions. Really you'll just end up walking in the footsteps of your hero, ending up in the dystopia of national populism which has another name, itself simply an advanced form of imperialism.
Yours, Rakesh