Through a series of tweets, President Trump has escalated the trade war with China by claiming that the US has lost trillions of dollars to the country, and has ordered American companies to look for manufacturing alternatives.
Pictured in a previous White House meeting. Left to right: Cook, Trump, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
President Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that he is ordering American companies to move away from production in China. He said they must start looking for alternatives immediately, and that they should make their products in the US. The President also directed courier firms such as FedEx to look out for consignments of the opioid Fentanyl in deliveries from China.
“Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years,” he tweeted. “We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP.”
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