You have to understand, we charge them almost nothing for years and years and decades. And it was only seven years ago when I came in, we started with China, charged them. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China in tariffs. And they understood. Honestly, President Xi understood. He said, look, I understand. And the other countries, and they all understand we're going to have to go through a little tough love, maybe, but they all understand. (22:42–22:48)
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Asserts that the U.S. collected hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs from China.
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