US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has refused to rule out launching a war against China in order to show Beijing that he is serious about the issue of trade deficit.
Trump said in an interview with The New York Times on Saturday that his foreign policy would be vague and “unpredictable” in order to have leverage over other countries.
“I would use trade to negotiate. Would I go to war? Look, let me just tell you. There’s a question I wouldn’t want to answer. Because I don’t want to say I won’t or I will or – do you understand that, David?” Trump said, addressing Times reporter David Sanger.
“That’s the problem with our country. A politician would say, ‘Oh I would never go to war,’ or they’d say, ‘Oh I would go to war.’ I don’t want to say what I’d do because, again, we need unpredictability,” he added.
Trump, a billionaire businessman from New York, has maintained that the United States must evolve…