US President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch meeting with Republican members of Congress at the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

‘We can’t let people steal’: Donald Trump talks of blocking Chinese tech investments

US President says the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States could be used to counter the acquisition of firms that develop advanced technologies

Topic | US-China trade war

Robert Delaney in Washington

Published: 3:49am, 27 Jun, 2018

Updated: 3:40pm, 27 Jun, 2018

US President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch meeting with Republican members of Congress at the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

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Robert Delaney

Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.