Fox host cautions against trade deal with China: “I'd hate to think that ... in the end we blinked”
Brian Kilmeade: “I also don't think we should show any weakness with China. This is the moment we stare them down.”
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From the April 23, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): So, one of the things that the White House is asking from all of the countries is okay, if you want to make a deal with us, you gotta make a deal with us that you're not going to deal with China. And there are a number of countries that are pushing back on that. In fact, the EU has just come back and they said they will not decouple from China. They said talks with the United States and relations with China are "two distinct matters." What the president is trying to do, is he's trying to get so many people and countries around China to isolate China so that he has got better negotiation, better leverage with China. But right now, we don't know how many countries are saying, okay, if I have to pick between one or the other, I'll go with the United States. We don't know how many.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): That's what China said on Monday. They said, we're going to threaten countries not to do deals with us. And it hasn't stopped Japan, hasn't stopped South Korea, has not stopped India, obviously, hasn't stopped India. Didn't stop Italy, who feels as though they could spearhead an EU deal. I think it's really, really encouraging to see things get reconfigured. But, I also don't think we should show any weakness with China. This is the moment we stare them down. We have lost a lot of market cap in doing this. Let's make sure we get what we want in this restructuring, and one of which they cannot steal intellectual property. The other thing is they can't continue to hijack and screw up our patents. They steal our products, they rename them, and then they sell them back to us. Amazon, two-thirds of all their products are China. You know, so, now, they are now standing up. Now they are worried about their tech center, which they suppressed for so long. Now they are starting to prop up Alibaba, they rehabbed Jack Ma. So now they are desperate to get their economy going, I'd hate to think that we, in the end, we blinked.