This is what 30 years of China trumping the U.S. on trade looks like

 

By 2015, the trade imbalance ballooned to $365.7 billion in China’s favor. That not only notched a record level for U.S.-China trade but also an all-time high for any bilateral trade ever, as well.

Cost-estimating website HowMuch.net crunched the numbers and used this animated graphic to show how it exploded over those three decades.