“Rather than honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping with an official state visit next month, President Obama should focus on holding China accountable over its increasing attempts to undermine U.S”.
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However the proposed breach of diplomatic protocol is nothing private, it appears.
Mr. Trump predicted that he’d get along with the Chinese leader “very well”.
Trump’s was critical of the economic relationship between China and the United States, between which he called for a “big uncoupling.” Trump also accused China of having “sucked all of our jobs” from the country – a point that O’Reilly countered by suggested that instead, it was American companies that had been transferring operations to China.
“Their leaders are intelligent, ours aren’t”, Trump said Monday. “Ours aren’t. We don’t know what we are doing”.
Trump’s feedback echo earlier remarks he made about China’s obvious power relative to the USA – whilst China’s financial system tanks.
In the first Republican debate, Trump invoked China several times, casting China “the winner” as a foil to an America in decline. Do you think that we sell to China without a tariff? We lose to Mexico each in commerce and on the border. “We lose to everybody”, he said.
It took Scott Walker a few hours to go even further.
Challenged by host Bill O’Reilly, the celebrity real estate tycoon doubled down on what has become a main issue in his campaign, criticizing the U.S. government for allowing China to devalue its currency.
Chinese language authorities haven’t responded to both comment.
“Secretary Kerry is going to be personally involved and looks forward to his participation and to making sure that it’s a success, and there’s no plans to change the visit, ” said the State Department spokesman.
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