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Donald Trump on Wednesday gained the US presidential election over Kamala Harris, and world leaders had been swift in congratulating the Republican.
Donald Trump vowed strict commerce measures in opposition to China on the marketing campaign path for the White Home, and the connection between Washington and Beijing will probably be one of many key themes of his tenure.
Here’s a collection of feedback made by Trump about China:
— “The idea of world warming was created by and for the Chinese language with the intention to make US manufacturing non-competitive,” Trump tweeted in November 2012.
— “I beat the folks from China. I win in opposition to China. You may win in opposition to China in case you’re sensible. However our folks haven’t got a clue. We give state dinners to the heads of China. I stated, ‘why are you doing state dinners for them? They’re ripping us left and proper. Simply take them to McDonald’s and return to the negotiating desk,” Trump stated at a July 2015 rally.
— “We will not proceed to permit China to rape our nation, and that is what we’re doing,” Trump advised a marketing campaign rally in Could 2016, insisting that the US had “lots of energy with China.”
— “China is letting us down in that they haven’t been shopping for the agricultural merchandise from our nice Farmers that they stated they might,” Trump tweeted in July 2019.
— “For the people who are actually out of labor due to the essential and mandatory containment insurance policies, as an example the shutting down of inns, bars and eating places, cash will quickly be coming to you. The onslaught of the Chinese language Virus isn’t your fault! Will probably be stronger than ever!” he wrote in a tweet in March 2020.
— “China’s sample of misconduct is well-known. For many years, they’ve ripped off the US like nobody has ever executed earlier than. A whole lot of billions of {dollars} a yr had been misplaced coping with China, particularly over time through the prior administration,” he stated in Could 2020.
— “As we pursue this vibrant future, we should maintain accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China,” Trump advised the United Nations in September 2020, referring to the coronavirus pandemic.
— “Consider President Xi: central casting, an excellent man. You already know, once I say he is good, everybody says, ‘Oh that is horrible’… Properly, he runs 1.4 billion folks with an iron fist. Sensible, good, all the pieces excellent. There’s no one in Hollywood like this man,” he stated in July 2023 at a Fox Information city corridor.
— “I had a really robust relationship with him,” Trump stated of President Xi to the Wall Road Journal in October 2024. “He was really a very good, I do not wish to say buddy — I do not wish to act silly, ‘he was my buddy’ — however I received together with him nice.”
Trump added: “He is a really fierce particular person.”
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