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Steve Bannon: “The net trade deficit with China is 5 or $600 million…”

Featuring: Steve Bannon, Former White House Chief Strategist | National

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Published | Video Starts at 04:11

Let me repeat this. We put, okay, you can add everybody combined and we don't buy as much as we buy from China. I think it's The net trade deficit with China is 5 or $600 million, excuse me, billion dollars. We are essentially to the Chinese what the colonies of America used to be to Great Britain during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. We're just shipping raw materials. (04:11–04:17)

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Asserts that the net trade deficit with China is $500 to $600 billion.

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