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“China” said in 216 of 427 transcripts, 1,178 times.
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Apr 12, 2025 Other 1 time
…and it's always been the other way around. Other countries—in particular, China was making a lot of money. Right. Well, we have no inflation…
Apr 11, 2025 Other 3 times
…I don't—you know, we have a lot of countries, not just China, and—but whatever it is, it is. I think we're in very…
…to come out of it. We'll see what happens. I mean, look, China is a—it's a very big, great country. He's a very good…
…a period of 2 weeks. We're making billions of dollars a day. China now is losing billions of dollars. I don't want them to lose…
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 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 21 times
…questions? Well, it's moving along, but obviously, I would say, right now China is not exactly thrilled about signing it. We have a deal with…
…to have to wait to see what—what's going to happen with China. So—— No, it's on the table very much. I think China is…
…Look, for years, we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by China—and others, in all fairness, but by China. That's the big one…
Apr 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony 13 times
…only with—you know, if you look at it, not only with China, but China was by far the biggest abuser in history and others…
…it. They had to stop, because it was not sustainable. Last year, China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States. That's not right…
…but we have a tremendous amount of spirit from other countries, including China. China wants to make a deal. They just don't know how quite…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 26 times
…deals, and people are paying tariffs. Countries are paying tariffs. Right now China is paying a 104-percent tariff. Think of it. One hundred and…
…But the same people now telling me about how to deal with China are the ones who sold out America for decades to China. For…
…to China. I'm the only one that China— you know how much—China has paid almost $700 billion in tariffs under me. And then they…
Apr 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…to beautiful clean coal, and they've stayed there for many years, like China. China is opening two plants every week. Germany went green, very green…
…to be number one. We're now way ahead of everybody at AI. China is in second place, but way behind. And they're going to be…
…scam" killed jobs and sent prices soaring here in America. But meanwhile, China opened two coal plants every single week. And other countries, likewise, went…
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…
Apr 6, 2025 Other 18 times
…have with certain countries— way over a billion per country. But with China, it's a trillion dollars, and we have to solve our trade deficit…
…with China. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose with China. And unless we solve that problem, I'm not going to make a…
…have to solve their surplus. We have a tremendous deficit problem with China. They have a surplus of at least a trillion dollars a year…
Apr 3, 2025 Other 5 times
…with TikTok, as an example, we have a situation with TikTok where China will probably say, "We'll approve a deal, but will you do something…
…example. Let's say we had a problem with TikTok, and let's say China wasn't going to approve, and we could use tariffs in order to…
…TikTok. Multiple. Which last minute? Which—— No, I think—— I think that China maybe will call and say, "Well, we're upset with the tariffs," and…
Apr 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 14 times
…same thing right now, starting about midnight tonight, I would say. And China charges American rice farmers an over quota, it's called—a tariff rate…
…every country on Earth would be racing to eliminate these policies, and China would be the first on line. They run a very strong country…
…now we import it all from different countries. A single shipyard in China now produces more ships every year than all of the American shipyards…
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 30, 2025 Other 2 times
…cash cow. So, if—in the case of Venezuela, as you know, China pulled up anchor and left. They were there. They had two ships…
…a lot of people that want to buy TikTok. We're dealing with China also on it, because they may have something to do with it…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
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 27, 2025 Press conference 2 times
…really took advantage of the United States. I put massive tariffs on China during my 4 years. We had the best economy in the history…
…had—I used tariffs to even things up. And in particular, with China, we took in hundreds of billions of dollars. And we had no…
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 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 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 19, 2025 Other 3 times
…have a chance of doing something good. And we'll be speaking to China about that also, because they're a party to it, obviously. But it…
…I think a great relationship with President Xi. But remember, he loves China, and I love the U.S.A. So, you know, right there, there's a…
…it's possible. It's possible. Well, we did a great trade deal with China. We did it—great for the farmers, great for manufacturers. They had…
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 14, 2025 Interview 4 times
…else can do it. If you look at the U.S., Russia, or China, they can't do it, and they won't be able to do it…
…35 really run well. And right now, it's Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, China—China, can you imagine?— has top schools. We're last. So they have…
…Everybody but us. And I was doing it—you know, I charged China tariffs. I took in hundreds of billions of dollars, and I was…
Feb 13, 2025 Press conference 8 times
…advantage of a lot of things. So we're not happy about that. China, of course, is terrible, and we've never taken in 10 cents until…
…I think we are going to have a very good relationship with China. I got along with President Xi very well until COVID. That was…
…leaders go, I think we were very close. And I think that China is a very important player in the world. I think they can…
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 7, 2025 Press conference 4 times
…look at Norway, Denmark, Sweden, various countries all up and down—Finland—China does very well in education—and then you look at us. We…
…expect the strongest military, by far, in the world—far stronger than China, far stronger than anybody, and that's the way it is. Thank you…
…of LNG immediately. Actually, we did it a few days ago. And China—and right now, not only China, everybody wants to buy it. We…