Congressman Adam Smith

And we need to figure out how to manage our relationship in a way that is less confrontational.

Because China, I mean, we've got major trade conflicts, and certainly we've heard about the tariffs.

But now we've got China, you know, we are trying to block other countries from buying China.

products from Chinese companies, and they are responding by trying to block U.S.

companies.

Any U.S.

company that agrees with that policy will now be sanctioned in China.

In fact, they're blocking executives from leaving the country if they adhere to this.

So we are in a rapidly escalating piece of economic warfare that is bad for us, bad for China, and bad for the

I know China.

I know about the Uyghurs.

I know about their threats on Taiwan.

I know about how they suppress their people and a thousand different things.

I'm not going to war over any of that.

Okay.

We have got to figure out some way to peacefully coexist with people we disagree with.

And this idea that if we disagree with people, well, we'll go ahead and crush them and bend them to our will.

got to stop that so i want to talk i was actually in china i led the first congressional trip to china in like six years um met with all the high level leaders in china i love our ambassador to china david perdue former senator from georgia really smart guy he's doing best his best to try and heal that relationship now look trump has put us in a very weak position

You know, he started this war in Iran that's got us in the horrible position I described earlier.

He started this tariff war with China and China was like, OK, we'll just stop buying your soybeans.