Trump Goes Easy on China in His First Week

We have one very big power over China, and that’s tariffs, and they don’t want them, and I’d rather not have to use it. But it’s a tremendous power over China,

he said in an interview with Fox News which aired on Thursday in the United States

Mao Ning (diplomat)chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson

China-US economic and trade cooperation is mutually beneficial,

foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said

Trade wars and tariff wars have no winners and don’t serve anyone’s interests or the world’s interests,

she added

Xi Jinpingpresident

I can do that because we have something that they want, we have a pot of gold."

Asked in an interview with Fox News if he could make a deal with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Taiwan and trade, Trump replied

It went fine. It was a good, friendly conversation,

he said of his call with Mr Xi during an interview with Fox News aired on Thursday

I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems, ... FEMA is getting in the way of everything.”

he told Hannity, ... adding that

Donald Trumppresident

I don’t think we should give California anything until they let the water run down,

Mr Trump said in an interview with Fox News

We're talking about a tariff of 10 percent on China, based on the fact that they're sending fentanyl to Mexico and Canada,

Trump said in his first press conference after his inauguration on Tuesday

Donald Tangexecutive chairman

Affordability is a big anchor. ... It's the whole package of it, it's a value for [your] money,

Tang told CNBC's Sara Eisen during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

Being a public company embraces the very universal and unique mechanism for accountability,

he said

In the end, China bought only 58 percent of the US exports it had committed to purchase under the agreement, not even enough to reach its import levels from before the trade war,

PIIE'S Chad P Brown wrote

That said, the lack of concrete tariffs at this juncture may suggest that Trump is open to further negotiations with China,

they added

Although no immediate tariff hike is an upside surprise, extended uncertainty may still weigh on confidence,

HSBC economists wrote in a note Wednesday

The reason why he's considering 25, 25 and 10 [percent], or whatever it's going to be, on Canada, Mexico and China, is because 300 Americans die every day"

Navarro said

We understand that he is a negotiating type of person,

Illinois farmer Kenny Hartman Jr., board president of the National Corn Growers Association, said of Trump

In North America and Europe, there is strong demand for tricycles used on farms,

said Li,

Chinese companies are no strangers to US tariffs in recent years."

Liu Ying, a researcher at Renmin University of China's Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, said

Amid uncertainties like potential tariffs and other trade measures in certain countries, coupled with a highly competitive domestic market, we have shifted our focus to emerging markets since 2021,

said Qiu Riju, the company's general manager

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 got to stop it,

Trump said according to CNN

Look, I put large tariffs on China. I've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars. Until I was president, China never paid not 10 cents to the United States,

he said