Please stop it with this cringe supermarket deficit analogy, it’s dumb.

“I have a trade deficit with my supermarket, that’s ackchyually a good thing.”

Well not necessarily, you might want to grow your own food to avoid toxic pesticides and processed garbage. If your goal is to grow your own food, your deficit with the supermarket is bad.

If Saudi Arabia saw itself having a trade deficit where they import more oil than they produce, that would be awful. Deficits CAN be bad, it all depends on what each country thinks they should be strong on vs what they are okay leaving to somebody else.

So, if you think the global superpower should not care about being a strong manufacturer, then I’m sorry to say but you’re dumb.