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\u201cI love China. The biggest bank in the world is from China. You know where their United States headquarters is located? In this building, in Trump Tower. I love China. People say, Oh, you don\u2019t like China? No, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders, and we can\u2019t sustain ourself with that. There\u2019s too much \u2014 it\u2019s like \u2014 it\u2019s like take the New England Patriots and Tom Brady and have them play your high school football team. That\u2019s the difference between China\u2019s leaders and our leaders.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Annoucement of Candidacy. June 16, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOur country is in serious trouble. We don\u2019t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don\u2019t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let\u2019s say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Annoucement of Candidacy. June 16, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cChina is a problem, both economically in what they're doing in the South China Sea, I mean, they are becoming a very, very major force. So, we have more than just Russia.\" [Source<\/a>] 4th Republican Debate. November 10, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIn China 2,000 years ago they built the Great Wall of China which is bigger than any wall we are thinking about okay? The Great Wall of China goes 18,000 miles. We have 2,000 miles, of which we only need 1,000 miles. So China has 18,000 or 13,000 miles and we have 1,000 miles. We have modern cranes, we have Caterpillar tractors which are the best, made in America!\u201d [Source<\/a>] Speech at Westin Resort & Spa on Hilton Head Island. December 30, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAnd China can come out and, frankly, they say that they don\u2019t have that much control over North Korea, they have total control over North Korea, they [North Korea] wouldn\u2019t be able to eat. So China has to get involved and China should solve that problem and we should put pressure on China to solve the problem[\u2026] They can handle it so easily. Now they won\u2019t say that, you know, they say \u2018Well they\u2019re [North Korea] not that easy, they\u2019re not that easy,\u2019 they\u2019re [China] taunting us okay? They are playing games with us [\u2026] China should solve that problem and if they don\u2019t solve that problem we should be very tough on them with trade, meaning start charging them tax or start cutting them off, you\u2019d have China in a collapse in about two minutes. We have great power over China we just don\u2019t know how to use it.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Interview with CNN. January 6, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe only power that we have with China is massive trade. I would tax China on products coming in. I would do a tariff, yes \u2014 and they do it to us. I would do a tax. And the tax, let me tell you what the tax should be \u2026 the tax should be 45 percent.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Meeting with Editorial Board of The New York Times. January 7, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThey [North Korea] don\u2019t live and they don\u2019t breathe without China. China has a lot of power over North Korea, I\u2019ve been saying this for a long time and China is playing us like a fiddle. China\u2019s saying \u2018Well, we don\u2019t have that much power, we don\u2019t have that much control,\u2019 they [North Korea] wouldn\u2019t get anything without China and China has the power and we have to tell China to straighten out the situation. I mean, you\u2019ve got this madman playing around with the nukes and it has to end and China has to do it. Now, we have power over China because of trade, because they suck us dry, they take our money, they take our jobs, they take our everything, we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year with China on trade. So, frankly if we ever stopped it [trade with China], believe me you\u2019d see depression in China like you had never seen a depression before. So we have power over China our leaders just don\u2019t know it. China has to solve the North Korea problem [\u2026] North Korea wouldn\u2019t exist if it weren\u2019t for China so we have to use China and ideally they do it without any threat, they should do it for their own well-being but if we have to use threat the threat with have is economic threat.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Interview with Fox News. January 8, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou gotta give him [Kim Jong Un] credit, how many young guys [\u2026] take over these tough generals [\u2026] he takes over and he\u2019s the boss, it\u2019s incredible. He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one that one, this guy doesn\u2019t play games and we can\u2019t play games with him because he really does have missiles and he really does have nukes. And here\u2019s what we do, we tell China, we rebuilt China, they [China] have taken so much of our money with trade, they have taken everything, they have taken our jobs , they\u2019ve taken our money, they\u2019ve taken our base, they\u2019ve taken so much [\u2026] They make a tremendous amount of money with the United States as we\u2019ve been talking about. We\u2019re going to go there and we\u2019re going to say you gotta take care of the Korean problem, you gotta take care of it, everything comes through China. And they tell our people, because our people are novices, but they say they don\u2019t have that much control, they have total control, they [North Korea] wouldn\u2019t live, they wouldn\u2019t eat without China. And China\u2019s massive everyone\u2019s afraid over there of China [\u2026] I will get China to handle the problem and if they don\u2019t handle the problem we\u2019ll have to take it up on trade. It\u2019s going to be very costly for them but if they don\u2019t handle the problem but I wouldn\u2019t say that because I would never want to threaten anybody.\" [Source<\/a>] Rally in Iowa. January 11, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNo, I said, \" I would use -- \" they were asking me what to do about North Korea. China, they don't like to tell us but they have total control -- just about, of North Korea. They can solve the problem of North Korea if they wanted to but they taunt us. They say, \" well, we don't really have control.\" Without China, North Korea doesn't even eat. China is ripping us on trade. They're devaluing their currency and they're killing our companies. Thousands of thousands -- you look at the number of companies and the number in terms of manufacturing of plans that we've lost -- 50,000 because of China.\u201d [Source<\/a>] 6th Republican Debate. January 14, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOK, just so you understand -- I know so much about trading about with China. Carl Icahn today as you know endorsed. Many businessmen want to endorse me. Carl said, \"no, no -- \" but he's somebody -- these are the kind of people that we should use to negotiate and not the China people that we have who are political hacks who don't know what they're doing and we have problems like this. If these are the kinds of people -- we should use our best and our finest. Now, on that tariff -- here's what I'm saying, China -- they send their goods and we don't tax it -- they do whatever they want to do. They do whatever what they do, OK. When we do business with China, they tax us. You don't know it, they tax us. I have many friends that deal with China. They can't -- when they order the product and when they finally get the product it is taxed. If you looking at what happened with Boeing and if you look at what happened with so many companies that deal -- so we don't have an equal playing field. I'm saying, absolutely, we don't have to continue to lose 505 billion dollars as a trade deficit for the privilege of dealing with China. I'm a free trader. I believe in it but we have to be smart and we have to use smart people to negotiate. I have the largest bank in the world as a tenant of mine. I sell tens' of millions of (inaudible). I love China. I love the Chinese people but they laugh themselves, they can't believe how stupid the American leadership is. I'm totally open to a tariff. If they don't treat us fairly, hey, their whole trade is tariffed. You can't deal in China without tariffs. They do it to us, we don't it. It's not fair trade.\u201d [Source<\/a>] 6th Republican Debate. January 14, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe've lost anywhere between four and seven million jobs because of China. What I said then was, \"we have very unfair trade with China. We're going to have a trade deficit of 505 billion dollars this year with China.\" A lot of that is because they devalue their currency. What I said to the New York Times, is that, \"we have great power, economic power over China and if we wanted to use that and the amount -- where the 45 percent comes in, that would be the amount they saw their devaluations that we should get.\" That we should get. What I'm saying is this, I'm saying that we do it but if they don't start treating us fairly and stop devaluing and let their currency rise so that our companies can compete and we don't lose all of these millions of jobs that we're losing, I would certainly start taxing goods that come in from China. Who the hell has to lose 505 billion dollars a year?\u201d [Source<\/a>] 6th Republican Debate. January 14, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cChina, this year in trade, will make more than $500 billion in terms of our trade deficit. $500 billion, this is no partnership.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Rally in Des Moines, Iowa. January 28, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \"I'm going to bring jobs back from China. I'm going to bring back jobs from Mexico, and from Japan, where they're all - every country throughout the world-now Vietnam, that's the new one. They are taking our jobs. They are taking our wealth.\" [Source<\/a>] CBS News Republican Debate. February 13, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWell look, we have power over China and people don\u2019t realize it. We have trade power over China. I don\u2019t think we are going to start World War III over what they did, it affects other countries certainly a lot more than it affects us. But\u2014and honestly, you know part of\u2014I always say we have to be unpredictable. We\u2019re totally predictable. And predictable is bad.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Meeting with Washington Post Editorial Board. March 21, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cChina has got unbelievable ambitions. China feels very invincible. We have rebuilt China. They have drained so much money out of our country that they\u2019ve rebuilt China. Without us, you wouldn\u2019t see the airports and the roadways and the bridges; I mean, the George Washington Bridge is like, that\u2019s like a trinket compared to the bridges that they\u2019ve built in China.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Meeting with Washington Post Editorial Board. March 21, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cChina is upset because of the way Donald Trump is talking about trade with China. They\u2019re ripping us off folks, it\u2019s time. I\u2019m so happy they\u2019re upset. They haven\u2019t been upset with us for 30 years.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Rally in Staten Island, New York. April 17, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \"Fixing our relations with China is another important step-and really toward creating an even more prosperous period of time. China respects strength and by letting them take advantage of us economically, which they are doing like never before, we have lost all of their respect.\" [Source<\/a>] \"America First\" Foreign Policy Speech, April 27, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n In reference to trade deficits: \"We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing.\" [Source<\/a>] Campaign rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana. May 1, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \"Let me tell you something, China will behave and China will be our friend. We'll do better under China with me and we're also going to do better economically with me. They are going to respect our country again.\" [Source<\/a>] Speech in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. May 19, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAlmost half of our entire manufacturing trade deficit, in goods with the world, is the result-and it\u2019s the result\u2014of trade with China.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Speech in Monessen, Pennsylvania. June 28, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cChina will enter the TPP through the backdoor at a later date. They\u2019re watching, they\u2019re studying, they\u2019re not in it now but they\u2019re gonna be in it if it\u2019s good, they\u2019ll be there. By the way, if it\u2019s no good, they\u2019ll pass.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Speech in Monessen, Pennsylvania. June 28, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to use great business leaders to work with our generals, we\u2019re going to make great trade deals where we are getting absolutely killed with China and other countries, and you people know it better than anybody because you know that even though you have a great governor, you know how hard it is to get your product to other countries and in particular to get it into China \u2018cause they don\u2019t want it.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Rally in Des Moines, Iowa. August 5, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t deal with China, manufacturers that I know can\u2019t get their product into China, if they do they have to pay a massive tax. Whereas China sends their product into us like nothing and they continually, continually, devalue their currency. And by devaluing their currency it makes it impossible for companies from Iowa and from every other place, you look at what\u2019s going on in Michigan, look at what\u2019s going on in upstate New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio. They make it impossible for other companies to compete, they make it impossible. You can\u2019t get your product in and if you get it in, and by the way if you really get it in they want you to build everything over there they don\u2019t want it from our country. They take advantage of us like Boeing like GM, they take advantage of us like nobody has ever. They\u2019re abusers, they\u2019re abusing our country.\u201d [\u2026] Now we have a trade deficit with China of $505 billion dollars, how stupid are we?\u201d [Source]<\/a> Rally in Des Moines, Iowa. August 5, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAt the center of my plan is trade enforcement with China. This alone could return millions of jobs into our economy. China is responsible for nearly half of our entire trade deficit. They break the rules in every way imaginable. China engages in illegal export subsidies, prohibited currency manipulation, and rampant theft of intellectual property. They also have no real environmental or labor protections, further undercutting American workers. Just enforcing intellectual property rules alone could save millions of American jobs. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, improved protection of America\u2019s intellectual property in China would produce more than 2 million more jobs right here in the United States. Add to that the saved jobs from cracking down on currency cheating and product dumping, and we will bring trillions of dollars in new wealth and wages back to the United States.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Economic Speech in Detroit, Michigan.<\/em> August 9, 2016<\/p>\n [Listing seven steps that will help bring back jobs to America<\/em>] \"Five: I am going to instruct my Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator. Any country that devalues their currency in order to take unfair advantage of the United States will face tariffs to stop the cheating. Six: I am going to instruct the U.S. Trade Representative to bring trade cases against China, both in this country and at the WTO. China's unfair subsidy behavior is prohibited by the terms of its entrance to the WTO, and I intend to enforce those rules. Seven: If China does not stop its illegal activities, including its theft of American trade secrets, I will use every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes, including the application of tariffs consistent with federal law.\" [Source<\/a>] Campaign Rally in Tampa, Florida<\/em>. August 24, 2016 <\/p>\n \u201cLook at our president, they [China] wouldn\u2019t even give him stairs to come out of Air Force One, okay? All right? And they probably say on that \u2018Gee, we couldn\u2019t get \u2018em there.\u2019 When I saw that yesterday [\u2026] if that happened I\u2019d land, I\u2019d hear he\u2019s not there [referencing a similar situation that happened to President Obama in Cuba] to pay respect to the country [the United States] , not to him [President Obama], to pay respect to our country, I would say \u2018Thank you very much fellas that\u2019s okay,\u2019 close it [the plane] up , boom, let\u2019s go back to Washington. [\u2026] We are very good to China and I have great respect for China I make a lot of money with China, China\u2019s great I don\u2019t hold it against them, I hold it against our leaders for allowing this to happen with the trade and trade deficits. The trade deficits are massive, $500 billion trade deficit. No I hold it against our leaders, I respect China, I mean our people should be doing that to them. But it doesn\u2019t work out that way so nothing against China I have the largest bank in the world is a tenant of mine, I\u2019ve sold condos to people in China, I\u2019ve sold to everybody, but that we allow this to happen and then we land on Air Force One.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Interview with General Michael Flynn, Sandler Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia<\/em>. September 6, 2016<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all the more power we have over them [China], okay? [\u2026] Because of that [China\u2019s large holdings of US debt] we have more power over them. [\u2026] We owe China two trillion dollars okay? Two trillion! I mean hard to believe but that\u2019s what it is. Think of it, they suck the blood out of us and we owe them money. That\u2019s a hard one to do, they\u2019re magicians. They take our money out and we owe them money on top of it so I call them great magicians. [\u2026] You [the United States] aren\u2019t going to default on that debt but we have a lot of power, we have a lot of power, no we would not default on the debt although you could make the case, I mean China\u2019s defaulted with us because if you look at what they are doing with intellectual property, $300 billion a year , I mean you look at what they\u2019re doing the way they steal our intellectual property, our intellectual rights , I mean it\u2019s crazy what they\u2019re doing , I mean there\u2019s like no laws that pertain to them so you could certainly make a case in a court what they have done to us is incredible we don\u2019t have, and then when they come over they get state dinners. [\u2026] Honestly, it\u2019s a very sad thing what China, how China has out negotiated us, it\u2019s very sad.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Phone interview, CNBC<\/em>. September 12, 2016 <\/p>\n \u201c Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to our country in terms of making our product. They're devaluing their currency, and there's nobody in our government to fight them. And we have a very good fight. And we have a winning fight. Because they're using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China, and many other countries are doing the same thing.\u201d [Source<\/a>] First Presidential Debate, Hofstra University<\/em>. September 27, 2016<\/p>\n \u201cOur country's in deep trouble. We don't know what we're doing when it comes to devaluations and all of these countries all over the world, especially China. They're the best, the best ever at it. What they're doing to us is a very, very sad thing.\u201d [Source<\/a>] First Presidential Debate, Hofstra University. <\/em>September 27, 2016<\/p>\n \u201cSince China entered the World Trade Organization, another Bill and Hillary backed deal, 70,000 factories, when I saw 70,000 factories I said \u2018Go back, it can\u2019t be possible,\u2019 I figured maybe 700, 7,000, 70,000 factories have shut down or left the United States. Can you believe this? 70,000. That\u2019s 15 factories a day closing on average. We are living through the greatest job theft in the history of the world. Jobs are being stolen by countries with much stronger leadership than ours.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Campaign Rally in Henderson, Nevada<\/em>. October 5, 2016<\/p>\n \"But we are putting our energy companies out of business. We have to bring back our workers. You take a look at what's happening to steel and the cost of steel and China dumping vast amounts steel all over the United States, which essentially is killing our steelworkers and steel companies. We have to guard our energy companies, we have to make it possible. The EPA is so restrictive that they are putting our energy companies out of business. And all you have to do is go to a great place like West Virginia or places like Ohio which is phenomenal or places like Pennsylvania and you see what they are doing to the people, miners and others in the energy business. It's a disgrace. It\u2019s an absolute disgrace.\" [Source<\/a>] 2nd Presidential Debate<\/em>, October 9, 2016 <\/p>\n \u201cFinally, we must fix our terrible trade deals and protect America\u2019s intellectual property, something you know a lot about. [\u2026] China is stealing our intellectual property. Guess how much intellectual property a US government official says China stole last year. The number is approximately $360 billion dollars.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Speech to Republican Hindu Coalition<\/em>. October 15, 2016<\/p>\n \u201cThird, I will direct my secretary of the treasury to label China a currency manipulator [during his first 100 days in office]. China is a currency manipulator, what they have done to us by playing currency is very sad and I don\u2019t blame them, they\u2019ve been very smart. I blame our politicians for letting this take place. So easy to stop, so easy to stop.\u201d [Source<\/a>] Speech on first 100 days in office, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. October 22, 2016<\/p>",
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