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Again, over the past few decades, there's been this perception that if we became...
is intertangled, economically speaking, with the Chinese government.
Somehow this would liberalize the Chinese government.
Precisely the opposite has happened.
And so there are a number of massive industries in the United States that have their supply chains chiefly based in China.
That is true for Apple.
It is true for Tesla.
It is true for an enormous number of American businesses.
And so a lot of big business people are traveling with President Trump to China.
That includes Elon Musk, as well as Tim Cook, according to the New York Post.
Met a president and vice chair, Dina Powell McCormick, BlackRock chairman and CEO, Larry Fink, Boeing president and CEO, Kelly Ortberg, are also part of the U.S.
delegation.
Again, President Trump is trying to right the U.S.
trade imbalance with Beijing by having the Chinese buy a bunch of stuff from us, including soybeans.
and planes and other goods.
The reality is what we actually should be trying to do is box China in.
We should not be looking for China to buy more of our products.
We should be trying to buy less of China's product.
The president was right about that.