Leader Schumer Floor Remarks: “Donald Trump Wants A Deal With China So Badly He Could Sell Out America”

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor urging Donald Trump to avoid compromising American manufacturing, semiconductor chips, relations with Taiwan, and artificial intelligence in a deal with China ahead of Trump's summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

There's an old saying that "only Nixon could go to China," but soon they'll say: "only Trump could sell out to China."

Xi Jinping has Donald Trump salivating at the prospect of a $1 trillion Chinese investments in America that would threaten America's supply chains, threaten economic independence, threaten national security, strengthen China at the expense of America's strength.

Donald Trump wants a deal with China so badly he could sell out America on manufacturing, he could sell out on chips, he could sell out on Taiwan which produces many of those chips, he could sell out on AI, and on any number of grave issues that will determine who dominates the twenty-first century. Right now, again, to get his photo in the newspapers and try, it won't work, to raise his very low poll numbers, he's going to sell out to China.

We can't let Trump willingly give China our superior American technology or allow him to serve Taiwan to the Chinese Communist Party on a silver platter just so he can get the satisfaction of saying he made a deal.

For decades, Donald Trump has complained about how China has cheated America.

If Donald Trump wants America to outcompete China, he cannot let Xi Jinping take him for a ride.

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