Kellyanne Conway: Trump is playing long game with China to get better trade deal
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In the midst of a possible trade agreement with China, President Trump has taken the "long view" on negations with President Xi, according to White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, who appeared on "Fox & Friends" Monday and said the administration is waiting for a better deal.
"The president takes the long view on all of this... He wants a better deal," she said. "He inherited a very imbalanced, non-reciprocal, unfair trade deficit with China. And when I say trade deficit, I mean we've got half a trillion dollars."
Conway said the United States economy should not have to bow to China and claimed Trump's unwillingness to roll over is what helped get him elected.
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"It makes no sense to the average American worker. We were told, 'Just go find a new line of work. Your job has been outsourced,'" she said.
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"Or we have to somehow give money to, or be on the losing side -- as the world's No. 1 economy to the world's No. 2 economy. It makes no sense to Americans. It's part of how the president got elected in the first place."
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Conway reiterated the president's claim that an immediate deal would give a shot in the arm to the U.S. economy, but said the administration doesn't want to push a bad deal on the American people, just to score short-term political points.
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"The president said yesterday that he could do a deal right now, and that the economy would take off like a rocket... but he doesn't want to do a deal if it's a bad deal," she said.
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"Too many presidents in the past have done that. And we ended up where we are, which is a half a trillion-dollar trade deficit with China -- the world's second-largest economy, where the technology transfers and the theft of intellectual property went unabated and unpunished. So this president is waiting for a better deal for this country."