By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-23 19:36:29 | Updated at 2025-01-23 23:09:01
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Addressing the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, via video from the White House, Trump described a “very good” relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying the two countries needed only to make their relationship “fair”, not “phenomenal”.
He criticised Washington’s “massive” trade deficits with Beijing – America’s second-largest trading partner after Mexico – and blamed his predecessor, former US president Joe Biden, for letting the situation “get out of hand”.
“It’s just an unfair relationship and we have to make it just fair,” Trump said of China. “We don’t have to make it phenomenal. We have to make it a fair relationship. Right now, it’s not a fair relationship.”
“We look forward to doing very well with China and getting along with China,” he added.
The US leader went on to champion America as a future manufacturing, AI and cryptocurrency “superpower”, asserting: “There will be no better place on Earth to create jobs, build factories or grow a company than right here in the good old USA.”
