In the meantime, I think we get along very well. And I think we can be bigger, better and stronger by working with them as opposed to just knocking them out.

Trump: It’s like everybody else. We’re a threat to them, too. Many of the things that you say we do to them. Look, this is a very competitive world, especially when it comes to China and the U.S. And we’re always watching them and they’re always watching us.

Our own intelligence agencies say the Chinese have infiltrated parts of the American power grid and our water systems. They steal American intellectual property and Americans’ personal information. They bought American farmland. How big of a threat is China?

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Mr. President, you just negotiated this one-year trade deal with China. But as you know, the Chinese, they think in 100 years, they played the long game, including on our own soil.

Trump: We played the long game too.

Either way, it confirms something: for Trump, China isn’t some bad guy he truly hates—it’s just a competitor he either trashes or partners up with, depending on which move gets him the best press or the most bean money.
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...which is basically him saying the whole ‘tough guy’ act was just leverage until the deals started rolling in. His base will call him a negotiation master because of it. That same base would want justice for themselves if someone made a dishonest deal with them, of course.

...and keeps saying “we get along very well,” arguing working together makes everyone “bigger, better and stronger.”

The guy who blames China almost as much as he does Biden now sounds like he’s best friends with them, even admitting “we played the long game too”...

...promising huge tariffs and saying we should just completely disavow. Now, days after signing a trade deal that hits pause on new tariffs and gets US crops moving again, he’s just like, “Whatever.” 🙄 He says they’re just “like everybody else,” that “we’re a threat to them, too,”...

...they’re still ripping off intellectual property to the tune of hundreds of billions, vacuuming up all our private data, and even buying land right next to military bases.

It wasn’t long ago on the campaign trail that Trump was raging about China being the ultimate enemy,...