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 33 of 51 transcripts, 183 times.
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Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 9 times
…meeting right now. And, you know, we have a good relationship with China , but China is tough and—like you're tough. You know, we're all… …opened up their country. They were very closed. I'd love to see China open up their country. So we're dealing—we're dealing with China right… …It doesn't work. It's extremely expensive. All the windmills are made in China . They used to be Germany and China; now they're mostly in China…
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…Japan, as you know. And we're very close to a deal with China . We really sort of made a deal with China, but we'll see… …the most expensive form of energy. It's no good. They're made in China , almost all of them. When they start to rust and rot in…
Jul 22, 2025 Meeting 10 times
…have a lot of meetings possible. President Xi has invited me to China , and we'll probably be doing that in the not-too-distant future… …pretty soon. Please. And I don't mind if he gets along with China , because we're getting along with China very well. We have a very… …well. We're—they're sending them in record numbers. We're getting along with China very well. And I don't mind if the president dealt with China…
Jul 16, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…the world. There's nothing close, right? Yes. Thank you. Yes, I think China has been helping out. I mean, it's been—it's been a terrible… …much business. It's not like the ones that we've agreed with, like China —like Japan, where we're negotiating with them. But I think probably we'll…
Jul 14, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…it. "We thought your country was dead." And they were dealing with China , because they really—they were really going to China, but not anymore…
Jul 9, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…in and they're building plants. AI—I mean, we're leading everybody, including China , by a lot with AI. They're building their own plant. You heard… …to be dropping those tariffs. But we treat Africa far better than China or anybody else—any place else. Yes. Yes. I love the fact…
Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 11 times
…kept Bagram, the big air base, which right now is controlled by China . One—among the most powerful runways in the world—thick, thick with… …could land. And right now—they were 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. I was keeping it. Outside of that, we… …to deal with. Actually, in many respects, they were much worse than China . Look at what they do to our companies. They sue Apple. They…
Jul 7, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…was willing to do this. I did it my first term with China and others. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs… …we've made a deal with United Kingdom. We've made a deal with China . We've made a deal—we're close to making a deal with India…
Jun 16, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…a bad idea. I don't mind that. If somebody wants to suggest China coming in, I think we suggest—but you want to have people…
Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…think we have everything—I think we're in very good shape with China and the trade deal. We have a deal with China, as you… …had a really good conversation. By the way, he invited me to China , and I invited him here. We've both accepted. So I'll be going… …point, and he'll be coming here, hopefully, with the First Lady of China . Yes, please. Go ahead, please. Oh, yeah. No, we—— No, Chinese students…
May 20, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…people, very big people, very rich people. They respect our country again. China was going to take them over. You know, China was going to… …But they were abandoned by this country. And they're not going to China anymore. They love us, and we love them. We're going to take…
May 15, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…war, and now we're leading it by tremendous margins over Russia and China , primarily. And so we're very proud of it. But I'm very proud…
May 15, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…good. We put up with all the plants that you built in China for years. Now you've got to build us—we're not interested in… …No—we have the strongest military in the world, by far—not China , not Russia, not anybody. We have the best military equipment in the… …money on trade. Don't forget, we were losing a trillion dollars to China . So we essentially went cold turkey with China for a period of…
May 6, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…So we're two countries that are very lucky. If you look at China , they don't have that. You know, it's a big disadvantage. Other countries… …important. But we'll see. I mean, over time, we'll see what happens. China . They want to meet, and they're doing no business right now. And… …miles to turn. And you know, we lost a trillion dollars to China on trade because of an incompetent President that we had, who preceded…
Apr 30, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…that— and I don't want this to happen, but I—know that China is doing very poorly right now. I just saw some reports coming… …actually saddened to hear it. But they are getting absolutely hammered in China . And you know, they're sending boats, the biggest boats in the world… …a certain point, I hope we're going to make a deal with China . We're talking to China, but their factories are closing all over China…
Apr 24, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…my first term, and we were very tough on trade. And, with China , as you know, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs… …not 10 cents to any other president, and they—but not only China , virtually every country got away with murder, and we just can't let…
Apr 24, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…later, but they had meetings this morning, and we've been meeting with China . And so I think you have—Jeff , as usual, I think you…
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…steel, 25 percent on aluminum, 10-percent baseline. We put penalties on China for sending us fentanyl. We put penalties on Mexico and Canada—25… …put on previous to Biden, which were the tariffs I put on China , where we took in, up and to this point, probably $700 billion… …He did everything he could. You know, he got paid money by China , right? The family got paid money. He did. And so, I don't…
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 3 times
…until I came along, and then I put very substantial tariffs on China , if you remember, and we took in hundreds of billions of dollars… …a—— I think we're going to make a very good deal with China . I think that you will see we'll make a very good deal…
Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…drug companies are in Ireland, and they're in lots of other places—China . And all I have to do is impose a tariff. The more… …then Biden took all those secondary tariffs and tariffs on . I told China : "You can't buy oil. If you buy oil from Iran"—China; I… …States of America." And those ships disappeared from that harbor so quickly. China . I get along great with China. What? I think we're—I think…
Apr 10, 2025 Meeting 10 times
…And I tariffed. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China and others—taxes on China—but we took in hundreds of billions… …to have a statement on that? Well, we'll see what happens with China . We would love to be able to work a deal. They've really… …certain advantages that others don't have on certain things. We have some—China has a surplus of a trillion dollars. I mean, the numbers are…
Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 24 times
…coming in to meet, and other com—countries are coming in. With China , as you know, against my statement, they put a 34-percent tariff… …hope it's going to stay that way. I have great respect for China , but they can't do this. We're just—we're going to have one… …people allowed it to get that way. So we'll be talking to China . We'll be talking to a lot of different countries. And I think…
Mar 25, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…plants all over the United States. They were all being built in China . You have many, many companies. And maybe, above all, you have the… …And many car companies are coming in. We have AI. We're leading China by a lot in AI. And we're going to keep it that…
Mar 24, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…look at the ships outside of Greenland, you have Russia, you have China , you have lots of different people and lots of different places. And… …close to that—to do that. They're building plants here instead of China , instead of other places. When it all happens—and it's going to…
Mar 17, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…and bad, and it looks terrible. When we had the head of China coming in—the top people right underneath President Xi, and he'll be…
Mar 13, 2025 Meeting 8 times
…States, which, as you know, —almost all of their plants are in China . Now they're building in the United States. Nobody—I was—I—look… …know what they're using it for. But they treat us very badly. China obviously treats this very badly. Almost everybody does. And I blame past… …I was President, I—we received, so far, about $700 billion from China , over the years, on the tariffs that I put in. No other…
Mar 12, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…Finland—you have various countries that do very well. You also have China that does very well in education, which is a pretty big tribute… …you'd blame size. It's too big. How can you do it? But China does it. So we think, when you move it back to Iowa… …to hell. One of the things we did is, we took from China hundreds of billions of dollars, and I have great respect for President…
Mar 11, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…they'd build them in Mexico. In many cases, they were owned by China . Built in Mexico; owned by China. And that's all stopped now. They're…
Feb 27, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…them, not all of them—but a lot of them come from China . And that's why we did that. It's 10 plus 10, in case… …term, and we made tremendous amounts of progress because of those tariffs. China paid us hundreds of billions of dollars. Billions. We never had a…
Feb 26, 2025 Meeting 19 times
…the number-one student at a school. A person comes from India, China , Japan, lots of different places, and they go to Harvard, the Wharton… …and invest. I see so many things saying that we don't want China in this country. That's not right. We want them to invest in… …good. That's a lot of money coming in. And we'll invest in China . We'll do things with China. We—the relationship we'll have with China…
Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 12 times
…They're opening up a plant a week. And they're opening up, in China , more than—somebody told me— two plants a week. You know, but… …I hope it's good, but we opened it up. And we're leading China by a lot. But China is giving them tremendous electricity because they… …greatest economy in the history of the world. We were doubling up China . We were—I was also charging China hundreds of billions of dollars…
Feb 20, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…to create a new currency. They probably wanted to use the yuan, China . They wanted to use the yuan. And Biden said: "Well, this is… …plus we're not going to do business with them, and that includes China ." And all of a sudden, they went to the BRICS states, and… …trillion. Think of it. We pay a trillion dollars. They pay nothing. China doesn't pay anything. India doesn't pay anything. Russia doesn't pay. We just…
Feb 4, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…became very strong very fast. They sold massive amounts of oil to China and everybody else, who would not buy the oil when I was…