Trump Says US Could ‘Decouple’ and Not Do Business With China

Trump Says US Could ‘Decouple’ and Not Do Business With China
U.S. President Donald Trump at the 2020 Council for National Policy meeting in Arlington, Va., on Aug. 21, 2020. Tom Brenner via Reuters
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President Donald Trump, in a Fox News interview airing Sunday, raised the possibility of decoupling the U.S. economy from China, a major purchaser of U.S. goods.

In a video excerpt, Trump initially told interviewer Steve Hilton “we don’t have to” do business with China, and then later said about decoupling, “Well it’s something that if they don’t treat us right I would certainly, I would certainly do that.”