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White House transcripts of the President’s remarks, compiled by the Office of the Federal Register and published on govinfo.gov
“China” said in 48 of 82 transcripts, 315 times.
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Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 6 times
…from all over the world—from Mexico; from Canada; from Europe; from China ; from Japan, a lot. We just had—Toyota is going to spend… …the auto business. That's not even to mention AI, where we're leading China . You know, we're leading China by a lot. They're not going to… …a gasoline-powered car—and we have so much gasoline. You know, China doesn't have gasoline. We do. And whether it's a hybrid, which really…
Nov 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Prince 4 times
…own electric with the plant, because no country, frankly, will have this. China is working very hard to produce enough electric, but we're beating China… …again, we're leading by a lot on AI, by actually a lot. China would be in second place, but we're leading by a lot. And…
Nov 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister 3 times
…time I finish up my first year. And there's been no country—China , no country in the world—that's done anywhere even close to that… …plants pouring back in. We have AI pouring back in. We're leading China in AI by a lot. We are leading everybody in every category… …things are happening with it. And in addition to which, we're leading China , we're leading the world in AI. We're building massive electric plants that…
Oct 30, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…you think about it, the very, very distinguished and respected President of China . And we will be having some discussions. I think we've already agreed…
Oct 26, 2025 Meeting 11 times
…of your business. No, I think we're going to do well with China . I think we're going to have a deal with China. We meet… …President Xi. I think we're going to have a good deal with China . And they want to make a deal, and we want to make… …We've agreed to meet. And we're going to meet them later in China , and we're going to meet in the U.S., in either Washington or…
Oct 22, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with NATO 6 times
…and Japan. In South Korea, I'll be meeting with President Xi of China . We'll have a pretty long meeting scheduled. We can work out a… …very appropriate thing. We have the most nuclear weapons. Russia is second. China is actually third by a long way, but they'll be even within… …That's already being talked about. I think we'll add—we'll probably add China into the mix. Well, I think I'll be talking to them about…
Oct 20, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral with Prime Minister of Australia 24 times
…they're getting them. Excuse me. You're next. Go ahead. Yes. I think China's been very respectful of us. They're paying tremendous amounts of money to… …countries took advantage of the U.S. They're not taking advantage anymore. No, China's paying 55 percent and a potential 155 percent come November 1 unless… …see what we can do. We have a very good relationship with China , but you know, it's been probably a little bit like your relationship…
Oct 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Zelensky 11 times
…I think we're doing very well. I think we're getting along with China . China is—would like to have something. As of this moment, we'll… …happens. But you know, for years, we were taken advantage of by China very badly. We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year… …it. The kind of money that Presidents allowed to be lost to China was just insane. And then when I came into office, as you…
Oct 14, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Bilateral meeting with President of Argentina 11 times
…and it's helpful—it's good for us also. I would say so. China —— China likes to draw wedges. Yes, sure. I mean—I guess that's… …Certainly shouldn't be doing anything having to do with the military with China . And if that's what's happening, I'd be very upset about that. Yes… …to make him look bad. I believe he's going to win out. China ? Well, you have to be careful with China. Look, we have—— Everybody…
Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Cabinet Meeting 3 times
…We have—we have import and we have export. We import from China massive amounts, and maybe we'll have to stop doing that. But I… …one of the things is soybeans. I had a great deal with China where they would buy $50 billion worth of our farm product and… …up President Xi every 2 weeks, or I'd call up people in China , say: "You've got to keep going. You're not buying the amount that…
Oct 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral 6 times
…over the world. When you look at Europe, when you look at China , when you look at all of the—any—almost every country charged… …you have to be able to compete. We have big advantages over China for lots of different reasons. And I think we're doing very well… …But you have to be able to compete to do well with China . If you can't compete, you're not going to do well with China…
Sep 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump-Starmer Bilateral 4 times
…the base is, as you know, it's an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. So a lot of things are happening. But… …they'll do a great job. And we're doing it in conjunction with China , but we are getting—the United States is getting a tremendous fee… …we're pretty close to a deal. We may do an extension with China , but it's an extension based on the same terms that we have…
Sep 3, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…is over the next week or two. I think that—we helped China very much, as you know, when they talk about freedom. And I… …don't believe that America, that the United States was acknowledged for helping China to get—to gain its freedom. But perhaps that was just a… …should have been mentioned last night during that speech, because we helped China very, very much. Yes, go ahead. How do you know there's no…
Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 17 times
…these things open up, I'll tell you what, our country—we're leading China now in AI—substantially leading China. And the reason is because we're… …Three times more. And the way we are able to succeed: because China goes out and builds these massive plants. They're right now building 58… …You see these big, ugly patches of black plastic that comes from China . And the solar is—you know, I like solar in some ways…
Aug 25, 2025 Meeting 19 times
…most powerful nuclear country in the world by far. Russia is second. China is third. China is going to catch, eventually—5 or 6 years… …One of the things we're trying to do with Russia and with China is denuclearization, and we're—it's very important. One of the things I… …big aim. But Russia is willing to do it, and I think China is going to be willing to do it too. We can't let…
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…