US national security adviser John Bolton says Donald Trump is the toughest US president China has ever seen, warning Washington will adopt a much tougher approach to Beijing.
Bolton said Trump believed China had misused the international order for far too long and not enough Americans had stood up to it.
“Now’s the time to do it,” Bolton said in a radio interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show recorded on Thursday and aired on Friday.
“They’ve never seen an American president this tough before. I think their behavior needs to be adjusted in the trade area, in the international, military and political areas, in a whole range of areas,” he said.
“Perhaps we’ll see at the G20 meeting in Argentina next month Xi Jinping willing to come to talk turkey on some of these issues,” he added.
His remarks come amid an intensifying trade war between the two countries which Trump launched to improve the ailing US economy.
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