Official transcripts
White House transcripts of the President’s remarks, compiled by the Office of the Federal Register and published on govinfo.gov
“China” said in 36 of 65 transcripts, 229 times.
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Mar 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…is investing $500 billion. You know, they always built their places in China . Now he's building here. I think because of the—and I—you… …as I said, but they always used to spend that money in China . Now they're spending it here. That means they're going to build—now… …reasons, but I could see—you know, one point in tariffs with China , a big country, would be probably worth more than all of TikTok…
Mar 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…and by just nature, they're opening up. And they're headed right into China , right into Russia. And we have no choice. The answer is: He's…
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…drugs that you need, medicines. It's in other countries. Largely, made in China . A lot of it made in Ireland. Ireland was very smart. We… …of problems. But Germany is now building a lot of coal plants. China is building one a—1 week. Think of that. And they're using… …about our country more than anything else, with respect to TikTok. And China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly, in…
Mar 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Sweden and lots of places are rated at the top, and Finland—China is rated very high too. Tell me that's—that takes the big…
Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a big job. He's got to get those permits out fast, because China gives fast permits, right? They don't even do permits. They just say…
Mar 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…kept Bagram, the big air base, which is one hour away from China , where they make their nuclear weapons. Would have been nice to have…
Mar 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…it to anybody. You know, you're talking about a potential war with China . Now, I deal with these people all the time, and I'm dealing… …But I don't want other people seeing—anybody seeing potential war with China . We don't want to have a potential war with China. But I… …abuse. But I certainly wouldn't want—you know, Elon has businesses in China , and he would be susceptible, perhaps, to that. But it was such…
Mar 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…I have to tell you—I give them a lot of credit. China is top 10, and so we can't now say that bigness is…
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…roaring back. The tariffs are a big deal. And, frankly, that's how China does it, and that's how a lot of other people do it…
Mar 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…soon as Biden came in, he took out all the sanctions, and China and everybody else that wasn't buying oil from Iran was buying it… …the big Air Force base. We would have kept it. Right now China occupies Bagram. And the reason we would have kept it is because… …them combined. That's why I placed large tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China , and they will remain in place until these deadly poisons stop pouring…
Mar 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…our jobs. I did it initially, very strongly, against, as you know, China and some others in the first term. And it was a very… …in the United States. He never did that before. He invested in China . He's got his plants in China. And now he's got them—going…
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…of this one. This is a big one. And as you know, China is pushing forward and very strongly as usual, but we're way in…
Mar 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…somebody's finally exposing them for what they've done. And same thing with China . Same thing with a lot of other countries. And the EU has… …be the equivalent of—like, Denmark is one—and Norway, Sweden. Actually, China is one of the better in terms of education. And so, we…
Mar 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…there'll be disruption. But in the end—I said it before with China . We signed an unbelievable deal with China—$50 billion in purchases. And… …a lot about it. You know, we took in, in tariffs from China , $600 billion. Nobody else took in 10 cents from China. They never… …will be on April 2, when—reciprocal tariffs. So, if India or China or any of the countries that really—India is a very high…
Mar 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…start using them against those other countries. On average, the European Union, China , Brazil, India, Mexico, and Canada—have you heard of them?—and countless… …It's very unfair. India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100 percent. China's average tariff on our products is twice what we charge them. And… …create jobs like we have never seen before. I did it with China , and I did it with others. And the Biden administration couldn't do…
Mar 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…never happened. And we would have had Bagram right now instead of China having it. It was 1 hour away from where China makes their… …poured into our country from Mexico and, as you know, also from China , where it goes to Mexico and goes to Canada. And China also… …it's the yuan or the yen in Japan or the yuan in China —when they drop them down, that gives us—that puts us at…
Feb 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…everybody here today. Thank you very much. How am I doing on China ? Am I doing good? Am I doing good on China? Tell you… …China. Nobody ever let people know what was happening with respect to China . And I happen to like President Xi, and I have tremendous respect… …Love the people of China. But we've been treated very unfairly by China and many other countries, and we're not being un- —fairly treated anymore…
Feb 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…Whatever a company or a country—such as, let's say, India or China , or any of them—whatever they charge, we want to be fair…
Feb 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…they all said, "How can we do this?" Because, you know, in China and various other places, you can probably get it with the shake… …thing for the world. The whole world suffered. It suffered terribly, including China , including other countries. It just was a terrible period of time. But… …came and lots of things came. And we had also talked to China about it. Now, Russia and us have the biggest nuclear by far…
Feb 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…going to go and do anything to undermine the dollar—that includes China . I don't even know that they're a member of BRICS. But they… …than anybody. This is good, beautiful, clean coal. And if you notice, China is opening up a coal plant a month. Germany is now opening… …the steel industry in my first term by putting on tariffs, because China was dumping massive amounts of steel—others also, but mostly China. And…
Feb 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 26 times
…I did it in a different form with tariffs and taxes on China . We took in hundreds of billions of dollars. No other President, as… …everybody. This is something that should have been done many years ago. China did it. I mean, China did it at a level that probably… …seen before. If you manufactured a car, you couldn't send it into China , the tariff was so high. So, everybody went and they built in…
Feb 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…So, we're ranked 40. Norway, Denmark, Sweden—I hate to say it: China , as big as it is, it's ranked in the top five, and…
Feb 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…Nobody wants to do business. They say: "Look, we can deal with China . They can do whatever they want. We can deal with Russia. We… …but they didn't do anything. As you know, I put tariffs on China . We took in hundreds of billions of dollars with those tariffs, and…
Feb 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…Norway, you have Sweden, you have Denmark. I must say, you have China that's very high in the pack, which is no longer we can…
Feb 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…reason. That's fine. It's fine. We're going to do very well against China and against everybody else. Right now they've taken advantage of the Biden… …you look at the list, Denmark, Sweden, Norway—believe it or not, China is doing very well on that list—a list of well-educated…
Feb 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 10 times
…see whether or not we can work something out on the tariffs. China —we'll be speaking to China probably over the next 24 hours. We… …coming into our country. Now, we had another big thing. Speaking of China , China is involved with the Panama Canal. They won't be for long… …get something very strong, or we're going to take it back. And China will be dealt with. And we didn't give that to China. We…
Jan 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…come through Canada, and a lot of fentanyl comes through Canada. And China makes the fentanyl. You know, China makes the fentanyl, gives it to… …the great wonders of the world. And we didn't give it to China . We gave it to Panama, and Panama has been ripping down all… …people because they didn't enforce the deals. We have a deal with China , which is phenomenal for the farmers, but there was nobody to enforce…
Jan 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…250 billion, $300 billion a year—and Mexico is a method of China sending in its product—and, with China, I'm also thinking about something… …because of that, they're causing us hundreds of thousands of deaths. So China is going to end up paying a tariff also for that, and… …that. We'll make that determination on what it's going to be, but China has to stop sending fentanyl into our country and killing our people…
Jan 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 15 times
…if we can save all that voice and all the jobs and China won't be involved—you don't want China involved. But we'll see what… …was so one-sided. You know, we had obligations, but Russia didn't, China didn't, other countries didn't. We paid every—we were going to lose… …the World Health Organization, where we paid $500 million a year—and China paid just $39 million a year, despite a much larger population. How…
Jan 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…the World Health Organization, where we paid $500 million a year and China paid $39 million a year, despite a much larger population. Think of… …we would. They have to clean it up a little bit. But China pays $39 million for 1.4 billion, and we're paying $500 million…
Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…huge positive impact. And you know, we want to be ahead of China . We're, right now, way ahead of China. David Sacks is one of… …It's a world. That's a whole different world. And we're ahead of China now because of what I'm doing, and I think it's going to… …But I have certain hatreds of people too—— ——you know? Which one? China ? They have a lot of power over Russia. They supply energy to…
Jan 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 12 times
…everything, and it's so unfair." I said, "How does it compare to China ?" He said, "It's much worse." And the other thing, as you know… …it. Because it's a very competitive—it will be very competitive with China and others. So I'm going to give emergency declarations so that they… …actually, you could look worldwide, we—we're—we were beating everybody from China to everybody else. So—and we think we really—now, with what…
Jan 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…want to do is, we want to keep it in this country. China is a competitor, and others are competitors. We want it to be… …know what's happening. This is money that normally would have gone to China or other countries—but, in particular, China. In total, before the end… …I had that talk with President Xi the other day, too, of China . I said, "We don't want that crap in our country." We've got…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 26 times
…immigration. Which one? No. You're talking about which? Say it again. Oh, China . Well, you—as you know, I put on—large tariffs on China… …amounts of steel. We've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars from China because they—and they were unable to terminate the tariffs that I… …other things too. And the very big thing is the Panama Canal. China controls the Panama Canal. What's that all about? They're not supposed to…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…energy that you can have by far, and they're all made in China , by the way—practically all of them. And they kill your birds… …rip-off. The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity. You know, China, I—and look, they use a… …any business with us. You're not going to do business with America. China passed. Everybody passed. They were broke. They didn't have money for Hamas…
Jan 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…or form. And that includes the United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn't give it to China…