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United States President Donald Trump ruled out renegotiating the trade deal with China and expressed disappointment at Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, which has spread worldwide, killing more than 3,000,000 people. , including 80,000 in the United States.
The United States and China earlier this year signed Phase 1 of a trade agreement, ending a two-year tariff war that rocked the world economy.
“The Chinese said somewhere that they would like to renegotiate the (trade) agreement. We are not going to renegotiate, ”Trump told Fox Business News on Thursday.
“Look, I’m not happy that something has to do with that particular issue (China) right now. Everything I said turned out to be correct. If you look at other countries, they charge us tariffs to do business and we can’t collect them,” he said. .
In response to a question, Trump said that the Chinese have always stolen Intellectual Property (IP) from the United States. “They were never called (out). Now they are being called, “he said.
“We can stop them, they are going to try to do it. I mean you could also stop doing business with them, that’s one thing. Look, we’ve lost a fortune dealing with China. We have rebuilt China, “he said.
“They’ve done a great job, but the people sitting in this seat (the Oval Office) have allowed them to rip us off like they’ve never seen it before and that includes President (Barack) Obama and (Joe) Biden ‘Sleepy Joe’. It allowed them swindling this country. We spend hundreds of billions, we gave them hundreds of billions of dollars year after year, “Trump said.
The president said he does not want to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping at this time. “I have a very good relationship, but I just … right now I don’t want to talk to him,” he said.
He stated that there are many things that the United States can do.
“There are many things that we can do. We could do things, we could cut the whole relationship. Now if you did what would happen? You would save $ 500 billion if you cut the entire relationship. Look, at what point does it, and I said it for years, I said it with other countries, you also know, China is not the only country that scams us in NATO, where we defend Europe for nothing, essentially nothing that I was capable of make them pay hundreds of billions of dollars more, “he said.
The coronavirus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December, has killed more than 3,000,000 people with 4.3 million confirmed cases worldwide. More than a quarter of all confirmed cases of COVID-19 are from the United States. USA
There has been increasing pressure on President Trump, in recent weeks, to take action against China, as lawmakers and opinion makers feel that COVID-19 spread across the world from Wuhan due to Chinese inaction. .
Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have claimed that the deadly virus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The United States has repeatedly asked China to allow the international community to enter the laboratory in Wuhan for investigation.
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