So you kind of wonder, well, why would you do something that's just not well thought out? I mean, you can apply tariffs. There's a place for tariffs to help open up markets and leverage. The United States sometimes gets taken advantage of because we've been the biggest market, China, China in particular, as it came up, started taking advantage of the rules. And my administration applied tariffs as well, occasionally to counteract these bad practices. But that's not what's going on now. What's going on now is that tariffs means everybody has to come to you for favor. (57:03–57:16)
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Asserts that China has taken advantage of trade rules with the United States.
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