Trump: ‘You Have to Deal with a Position of Strength’ to Get Along with China

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>> New detailed report on CNN of all places documents China’s expansion missile facilities, staggering bigger than anyone had ever thought. More robust growth and over the weekend, the new Japanese prime minister who I know you like a lot. Cichy called the Taiwan situation extremely severe in its phase in that they may consider any move on Taiwan by China to be a national survival crisis for Japan. Now, it gets better, a Chinese diplomat today said in a prime minister of Japan should be beheaded for her comments. These are not our friends, sir, are they, in China? A lot of took advantage on trade more than China did. And China took big advantage.
>> We built their military. We built their whole thing, the whole thing was – and by the way.
>> Remember in my first term took in hundreds of billions of tariffs. I put tariffs on China early. When we got hit with Covid we fought that. We did a good job. That was Covid it. Came from a certain place in China.
>> Laura: another great gift from China.
>> Another gift we got. Look, I get along great with President Xi. I get along great with China. The only way you are going to get along well with China you have to deal from a position of strength. We have tremendous strength because of tariffs. We have tremendous strength because of what I have done. I have rebuilt our military and they have a lot of missiles but we have a lot of missiles, too. They don’t want to mess around with us. I can tell you that.