Should the US regret the imbalance of trade deficits which has empowered China to buy so much property outside of China?

Here we go again. A few decades ago we suffered the same sort of imbalance with Japan. People worried they were buying America. We then began buying it back at bargain prices when their economy weakened. Thus a lot of dollars returned home

China's GDP is about $10T, ours is about $17T. Considering the size of the population and a problematic economy, we remain the powerhouse. The issue is how the money is spent.

We obviously don't regret it, however much we say we do, because we've been buying Chinese goods for decades. If we really wanted to fix the trade imbalance, we'd reduce our corporate income, capital gains and dividend tax rates, reform our counterproductive regulatory system so that it doesn't cost our economy nearly $2 TRILLION in wasted compliance costs, adopt a 'loser pays' civil tort system like the rest of the world and make ourselves more competitive.

One last thing; if Chinese people are investing here rather than in China, what does that say about their views of their own economy and ours?