Billionaire businessman and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump writes in a new piece that the Obama administration’s “negligence” is hurting America and that he’ll go after China immediately upon being sworn into office.
“The incompetent, rudderless Obama administration’s negligence in foreign policy, trade and national security is making America less confident, less prosperous and less safe,” Mr. Trump wrote in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal posted online Monday evening. “Americans deserve better, and a Trump administration will turn us into winners again.”
Mr. Trump wrote that a recent agreement on intellectual property between the United States and China “is not worth the paper it is printed on.”
He also said the Chinese government’s manipulation of the yuan is “robbing Americans of billions of dollars of capital and millions of jobs” but that the White House “chooses to do nothing to protect American workers and companies.”
“On day one of a Trump administration, the U.S. Treasury Department will designate China a currency manipulator,” he wrote. “This designation will trigger a series of actions that will start the process of imposing countervailing duties on cheap Chinese imports, defending American manufacturing and preserving American jobs.”
Mr. Trump also called for tax reform, reducing the national debt and building “the military we need to contain China’s overreach in the Pacific Rim and the South China Sea.”
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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