Sen. Eric Schmitt told Newsmax that “China is the greatest threat” that President Donald Trump is facing.
The Missouri Republican told Newsmax’s “National Report” that China poses a troublesome dual threat to the U.S. “and we need to understand that China is the greatest threat, not just militarily to the United States, but from an economic perspective, the way they’ve handled trade over the last 30 years, really.”
Schmitt said China is ruthless in handling trade policies and actions. “But China’s a different animal. They export five times the amount we export to them. They steal our IP. They subsidize products.” And said Schmitt, it gets worse. “They dump products. They take out whole industries.”
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