Ben Shapiro

In fact, Pierre Poliev, who was the conservative party candidate in Canada, was slated to win the prime ministerial election over there.

He ended up losing because of the trade war.

And the person who replaced Justin Trudeau ended up being Mark Carney, who is perfectly warm toward making common cause with the Chinese.

We need to cut better trade deals with all of the people who are in the in-between, who might move toward China and might move toward us.

We need to offer them carrots.

That's better trade deals with Canada, better trade deals with the Europeans, better trade deals with Japan and South Korea and Indonesia and Malaysia and Australia.

We need, in other words, to isolate China by demonstrating, by flexing our economic power.

And the way you flex your economic power is not purely by telling people they can't have access to our markets unless we get better access to theirs.

The way that you flex your economic power

is by cutting deals that isolate China.

Pick between us.

You can either have access to American markets or you can have access to Chinese manufacturing.

Those are your choices.

And if we actually utilized our power in this way, we could isolate China.

We needed to do that before we decided that we were going to heavily tariff China.

We also can cut off their sources of revenue and power.

And this President Trump has been doing with alacrity.

Again, as I mentioned yesterday on the program, if you look at Trump's foreign policy and what he has been doing, much of what he has been doing is directed at minimizing Chinese power and influence.

The operation against Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela was designed to cut off a chief source of oil revenue for China.

Something like four to five percent of all Chinese oil imports were coming from Venezuela before.