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David McCormick: “China continued to screw us with subsidies, with lowering…”

Featuring: David McCormick, Republican | U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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Right. Because you're going to get cheaper goods and you know, they'll eventually see the error of their ways. And they never did. They never did. China continued to screw us with subsidies, with lowering the cost of capital, with non tariff barriers, with intellectual property theft. The Europeans are, you know, huge tariffs. I was at the famous dinner with Trudeau in Mar a Lago and Trudeau sat there right across the table and said, Mr. President, we don't have tariffs. (12:18–12:28)

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Asserts that China engages in unfair trade practices, including subsidies and intellectual property theft.

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