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“China” said in 136 of 254 transcripts, 746 times.
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Jan 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump participates in Southern Boulevard Dedication Ceremony 2 times
…just the AI. The AI is unbelievable, what's happening there. We're leading China by a lot. But we're building more car factories than at any…
…want to pay the tariffs. It's a pretty simple formula, you know? China became powerful because of that. They don't want to pay the tariff…
Jan 14, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump participates in a signing ceremony 7 times
…It's not the highest level, but it's a very good level. And China wants them and other people want them, and we're going to be…
…If we don't go in, Russia is going to go in and China is going to go in. And there's not a thing that Denmark…
…not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland. But there's everything we can do. You found…
Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Detroit Economic Club 9 times
…you believe this? Brought—a case brought about by people that are China-centric—foreign-centric, but China-centric. I wouldn't want it if I…
…You know, China is our—one of our biggest taxpayers right now. China. Would you ever believe you'd hear that? And they've been great. My…
…Xi has been great. But we have a group that's foreign-centric, China-centric, suing. And we'll figure something out if we don't win, but…
Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…you know, we have a tariff on Chinese autos. And in Europe, China is taking over the auto business—I would say, as a nice…
…We have a hundred-percent tariff on any car coming in from China, so that makes them able to do very nicely against China. Right…
Jan 6, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the House GOP Member Retreat 4 times
…a 25-percent tariff added on to you"—like I did with China on fentanyl. I put a 20 percent penalty tax on China, and…
…by far. The record was about $3 trillion many years ago by China. We've got $18 trillion pouring into our country. You know why? Because…
…they come in and they're building. By the way, this is what China did to us for many years. It's just reversing it. Other than…
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 5 times
…We have—we're at least 15 years ahead of any other competitor. China, Russia, nobody can come close. We're also building, right now, three large…
…And again, the biggest number was $3 trillion in history. That was China many years ago. Now it's $18 trillion, and that's just in 10…
…probably talking about 2½ years. It's a counter to everybody. It's not China. We get along great with China. I have a great relationship with…
Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in North Carolina 3 times
…to save North Carolina's cherished furniture industry, which has been decimated by China. You know, I used to come here a lot for one reason…
…they—they were, like, geniuses. You lost the business. It went to China and other places, but mostly to China, because they never put tariffs…
Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 2 times
…drug out our country. And you can look throughout history—look at China, when they were loaded up with drugs. They were suffering greatly, and…
…percent drop in the amount of fentanyl coming across the border, and China is working with us very closely on bringing down the number and…
Dec 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…We've never had anything like it. Again, there's never been any country—China, wonderful. I have a great relationship with President Xi. China has never…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 12 times
…with me. That's up to them. It's a massive industry. We're leading China, we're leading everybody by a tremendous amount. We're—the electricity is being…
…one winner here, and that's probably going to be the U.S. or China. And right now we're winning by a lot. China has a central…
…if we do this, if we're unified. We have to be unified. China is unified, because they have one vote. That's President Xi. He says…
Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…have to go back to India, they have to go back to China, they have to go back to France. They have to go back…
…will. But we have made historic trade deals with the United Kingdom, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, the EU, Malaysia, Cambodia, El Salvador, Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala…
Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 12 times
…year ago, you were a dead country." Dead. They were focusing on China. They were looking for, you know, who's next on line, frankly. And…
…It's a very powerful—it's a very powerful fuel. It's used by China. You know, China makes all our windmills, but they don't have any…
…have to change the windmills. And most of them are made in China, but China has very few wind farms. You know why? Because they're…
Dec 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: President Trump makes an announcement 2 times
…very bad people. They hate our country. They represent foreign countries, including China. But they represent—and China is paying us a lot of money…
Dec 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 1 time
…about $18 trillion in 10 months. And there's never been a country—China—no country has ever done anything even close to that. Even if…
Nov 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends US - Saudi Investment Forum 1 time
…things being built the likes of which nobody's ever seen. We're leading China by a lot in AI, and we're also bringing auto plants in…
Nov 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Arabia for dinner 1 time
…And the United Nations passed it, I guess, unanimously, you can say. China, which was against it, took a pass—didn't vote against it. And…
Nov 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends McDonald's Impact Summit 2 times
…it's good for everybody—all that. We made a deal recently with China, where they buy our soybeans, but it's hundreds of billions of dollars…
…the world was ripping off our country. Not sustainable. Not even sustainable. China was making $722 billion. Think of that. Not million. Seven hundred and…
Nov 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump swears in the ambassador to India 10 times
…Indo-Pacific region. It's an amazing country actually—1.5 billion people. China has 1.4 billion. Those are two big countries. As Ambassador, Sergio…
…biggest number ever is a tiny fraction of that—for any country, China, the United States—the biggest number ever. If you look at the…
…the United States. It's unheard of. We have AI factories. We're leading China by a lot. We have cars and, you know, car plants coming…
Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts dinner with Central Asian Countries 4 times
…had a great relationship and a great meeting with President Xi of China. And we went—also, as you know, our new and fantastic Prime…
…we had a tremendous meeting, as you know, with President Xi in China. And my doctrine would be denuclearization, because we have enough nuclear. We're…
…building auto plants. We're building AI plants. We're leading in AI over China and everybody else. When all of these plants start opening, we're going…
Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an annoucement 6 times
…say that there's never been anything like this ever in—whether it's China or Europe or—you could take all of Europe; there's never been…
…COVID, we made almost no medicine here. We had to go to China, we had to go to Ireland, we had to go to other…
…discuss a round two. This is so important. If you look at China—and I covered this yesterday—but if you look at China, by…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 6 times
…the fairest trade deals anywhere in the world. You know, we're leading China, we're leading everybody by a lot in AI. And this was my…
…of the world, and the undisputed leader in artificial intelligence. We're leading China by a lot. And don't forget, if we don't do the crypto…
…horrible situation, if it ever has to be used. Russia is second. China is a distant third, but they'll catch us within 4 or 5…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…They were great to us in terms of the foreign visits with China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia. And they were actually terrific. So I want…
…your normal ways soon. But we did a great job over in China. And we've done a great job in turning off wars. We stopped…
…I couldn't have done it. I put a 100-percent tariff on China. As soon as I heard it—within 20 minutes, I put a…
Oct 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump has dinner with President of South Korea 2 times
…will work out very well. Tomorrow I meet with President Xi of China, and I look forward to that. And we've been talking a lot…
…going to have something that's going to be very, very satisfactory to China and to us. I think we're going to have a—I think…
Oct 29, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump in South Korea for APEC CEOs Luncheon 1 time
…problems and imbalances. You know—probably you know that President Xi of China is coming tomorrow here, and we're going to be, I hope, making…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump has dinner with Japanese business leaders 4 times
…no, he's kidding." I'd say, "I'm not kidding." That's why we're leading China. We're leading everybody in this race. So we're with you all the…
…as—I think, much faster than maybe any other country, other than China, because in China you have a good system. Also, you have a…
…we started hearing about people dying in different places of the world—China and other places. And we have a COVID. We have a pandemic…
Oct 26, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…the following day, we—as you know, we meet President Xi of China. And that should be—are you going to be there? Oh, good…
Oct 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 3 times
…leaving tomorrow for some very big meetings, including with the president of China, where I think we're going to come out very well and everyone…
…dollars that they're paying. We're actually—on November 1, the tariff on China goes to 157 percent, which is record-setting territory. And we don't…
…trillion of investment. The alltime record is $3 trillion. I think it's China. We're going to have $20-or $21 trillion—we've never had anything…
Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Diwali Celebration 4 times
…the papers because I'm the one—right now, as of November 1, China will have about 155-percent tariff put on it. And I don't…
…sustainable for them. So I want to be nice to China, but China has been very rough with us over the years, because we had…
…Some were good politicians. Some weren't even good politicians. But they allowed China to take advantage of us, and every other country to take advantage…
Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch 8 times
…a slog. We've got a slog. But remember this, other nations, including China, Japan, European nations, they used tariffs against us for many years. That's…
…doing good, and I took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. I put the full tariffs on China. Biden left the tariffs because…
…make a good—I want him to make a good deal for China, but it's got to be fair. For years, they were making $5…
Oct 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: White House Ballroom Dinner 2 times
…I like it. For me, it's like—I love it. In between China, Russia, and everything else that we deal with, it's going to be…
…they've wanted to have it. And when they have the head of China, the head of any country, we have many—many of the countries…
Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…a place called Egypt, the oldest civilization. They say 6,000 years. China is 5,000 years, but you're out—you're actually number one, 6…
Oct 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 2 times
…Yes, please. Okay. Well, it's not a hundred percent. You're talking about China might be a hundred percent? I would never have been able to…
…parts. You remember that from last time. We were just surprised that China—I have a very good relationship with President Xi, and they did…
Oct 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…of a sudden, if those countries are hostile—and, by the way, China hasn't been. We've made deals with China. You know, they approved the…
…the U.S. And they're leaving Mexico. And by the way, they're leaving China. They're leaving all over the world to come into the U.S. Nobody's…
Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 1 time
…when he spotted 30 enemy ships at port off the coast of China. You know that, a very famous story. Commander Fluckey ordered his men…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…amazing. And we have more AI. We're leading in AI. We're leading China by a lot. We're leading everybody by a lot. They're creating their…
…moving in from Mexico. They're coming in from all over the world. China is coming. They're all coming. And that way, they avoid paying tariffs…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…detect it. There's no way—we're 25 years ahead of Russia and China in submarines. Russia is actually second in submarines. China is third. But…
…dominated. We really dominate in that sphere now. We were way behind China and Russia, and now we dominate. Space Force turned out to be…
Sep 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 9 times
…because to get it done properly, we really needed the support of China and the approval of China. Yes, ma'am. I always like MAGA-related…
…going to get a lot of money in taxes. And you know, China wanted to see this go. This is a great legacy for China…
…announcing different things, but the U.S. comes out great. And I think China comes out great, because they're going to have a very important legacy…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 8 times
…is: How many more lives will be needlessly lost on both sides? China and India are the primary funders of the ongoing war by continuing…
…them out without massive subsidies. And most of them are built in China, and I give China a lot of credit. They build them, but…
…by a global increase of 54 percent, much of it coming from China and other countries that are thriving around China, which now produces more…
Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…as you know, and the investors are getting ready. And I think China wanted to see it stay open too. They wanted to see it…
…badly. And so, we were able to work out a deal with China. And it's a very good deal for us. It's a very—I…
…Save TikTok." So many people. It's a big thing. And you know, China can be very proud that they were able to get that started…
Sep 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…maintain that fight. We're right now—and I want to say leading China and the world by a lot in AI—a lot, and we're…
Sep 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during his signing of the Presidential Memorandum? 3 times
…Jamieson Greer and others. And it was a very big meeting with China. And you know, they're treating us with respect. We treat them with…
…group, it's important. And it can maybe even bring us closer to China. We had a very good meeting with China. I was surprised. I…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…couldn't hook into the grid. We wouldn't have AI. We're substantially leading China. China knows it. We're substantially. And most of those people were here…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…going to keep Bagram, because Bagram is 1 hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. We were going to have that all to…
…dollars of drugs are pouring out of Venezuela and other countries. Look, China—what they're doing with fentanyl is a terrible thing. It comes through…
…it's very exciting. We're going to end up with more electricity than China. And it's going to be built at no cost to us. And…
Sep 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…electric capacity and getting it for you, getting your permits. We're leading China by a lot—by a really—by a great amount. And I…
…our country to a new level. We're leading the world. We're leading China, but we're leading the world by a lot, and we're leading it…
Sep 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 6 times
…You know, we were losing the race in space very badly to China and to Russia, and now we're far and away number one in…
…they were dying by the thousands and millions. But we did with China, and China paid us billions and billions of dollars. And I started…
…factories under construction or being designed right now. And they're coming from China. They're coming from Mexico, I must tell you. And they're coming from…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…myself. I spent hours down there looking. That's in between Russia, Ukraine, China— —all the other stuff. We do it. I want to thank Doug…
…came along, nobody got it. We were abused by other countries. We're— China—I mean, take a look—that's what they—what they did is…
…take place. You know, we did it in my first term with China. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs, but when…
Aug 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…Space Force. It's amazing what it's doing. We're leading in space now. China was killing us. Russia was beating us. China was killing us. We're…
…them that way anymore. You can't. But we left it, and now China is occupying that air base. This was the most incompetent administration in…
…good—a good favor, I think, with the fish, the carp—the China carp. Did you ever hear of it? China carp. And it's taken…
Aug 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…lot of stuff that's old. We wouldn't be able to compete with China AI, and now we're totally leading the AI race and—the artificial…
Aug 14, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…what we're doing in terms of economics, we're blowing everyone away, including China. We're doing better than any other country in the world right now…
Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…back and brought it back in a very large way. You know, China is right now building 58 coal-fired plants—58 big ones. And…
…on India. On oil, they're the second largest. They're very close to China in terms of the purchase of oil from Russia. But—so I…
…it probably with a couple of others. One of them could be China, yes. Yes, we're pretty much getting close to it right now, but…