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US President Donald Trump says America would decouple from China if “they don’t treat us right”, as a planned review of the phase one trade deal the two sides agreed in January remains on hold.
In a short excerpt from an interview with Fox News set to air on Sunday, Trump said the US was not obliged to do business with China.
“Would you ever just decouple, not do business with China? Because, you know, we don’t have to,” he said.
“It’s something that if they don’t treat us right I would certainly, I would certainly do that.”
The president’s comments come at a time of deep conflict between Washington and Beijing over a range of issues, from trade and technology to Hong Kong and the South China Sea.

Trump also said he personally called off the talks planned for last week to review the progress of the interim deal designed to bring an end to a trade war that has been going on since July 2018.
A condition of the agreement, which was signed by Trump and Liu He – Chinese President Xi Jinping’s top economic adviser – was that senior officials from the two countries would review it six months after its implementation.
China’s commerce ministry said last week the trade talks would take place in the coming days, but neither Beijing or Washington has confirmed that.
Beijing condemns US’s financial sanctions on Hong Kong
At a press conference after the deal was signed at the White House, Liu said a decoupling of China and US was “not realistic”.
But US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in June that a decoupling could happen if US companies were not allowed to compete on a level playing field in China.
Under the terms of the interim deal, China agreed to buy at least US$200 billion worth of American goods and services between 2020 and 2021. Two-way trade between the US and China in 2019 was almost US$559 billion.


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.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} America ‘doesn’t have to do business’ with China, president says in an interview with Fox News Comments come as senior officials wait to review the phase one trade deal signed in January

America ‘doesn’t have to do business’ with China, president says in an interview with Fox News

Comments come as senior officials wait to review the phase one trade deal signed in January