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“China” said in 228 of 464 transcripts, 1,237 times.
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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…
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 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…
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…
Feb 2, 2025 Other 7 times
…terrible. They violated the agreement. They're not allowed to violate the agreement. China is running the Panama Canal. That was not given to China; that…
…used. And we have to focus on our country. Tremendous deficits with China, tremendous deficits with the European Union, tremendous deficits with Mexico and Canada…
…was written in Chinese. That's not right. So it wasn't meant for China. It should have never been made. The deal was a ridiculous deal…
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 Other 1 time
…for the free world. Right now you have Russian ships. You have China ships. You have ships from various countries. It's not a good situation…
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…