Trump says hed demand Chinas Xi Jinping follow through on $50B farming deal if re-elected
SMITHTON, Pa.— Former President Donald Trump said Monday his first call in the Oval Office would be to Xi Jinping, demanding the Chinese leader buckle down on a previously struck $50 billion agriculture deal.
“My first call — I’m going to call up President Xi.I’m going to say, ‘you have to honor the deal you made,'” Trump said at a roundtable featuring farmers at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.“We made a deal.
You’d buy $50 billion worth of American farm product,’ and I guarantee you he will buy it, 100% he will buy it,” Trump added.The former president struck a deal with China in his first term in tariff negotiations between the US and Beijing, which he said included an agreement for Xi to buy $50 billion worth of American agricultural goods.Now, Trump said, China is “not living up to it.”Trump also blasted the Harris-Biden administration for how they’ve handled relations with China during their term and said he would also tell Xi to crack down on fentanyl pouring out of China and across the US-Mexico border.“Second thing I’m going to do is I’m going to say, ‘you have to give the death penalty to your fentanyl dealers who are sending fentanyl,'” Trump went on.The roundtable with Pennsylvania farmers was intended to convince the key swing state voters that Trump will do more for farmers than Vice President Kamala Harris.Both 2024 candidates have hit The Keystone State hard to sway voters their way, as winning the state would be a huge win in the fight for the needed 270 electoral votes.Trump also stumped for Republican Senate candidate David McCormick, who is fighting an electoral battle against Sen.
Bob Casey (D-Pa.).McCormick is “going to help me make the farmers rich again,” Trump said.Trump said he would fight against China buying up American farmland, touted his policy of getting rid of the estate tax and stressed he would protect fracking.He also announced he would impose a 200% tariff on the tractor company John ...