Trump Attacks Taiwan in Wild Fox News Exchange: They Stole Our Chip Industry!'

"Baier pressed Trump about whether he will approve a pending arms sale to Taiwan. He asked Trump Should the people of Taiwan feel more or less secure after your meetings with President Xi? Trump insisted they should feel neutral but then went on a riff about Taiwan's history of stealing our chip industry: TRUMP: It's a it's a very good negotiating chip for us, frankly. It's a lot of weapons. It's $12 billion. It's a lot of weapons."

"TRUMP: But, you know, when you look at the odds, China is a very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. It's you think of it, it's 59 miles away, 59 miles. We're 9,500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. With all of that being said, you know, if you look at the history of Taiwan, Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing."

"TRUMP: Because, if they would have put tariffs on chips coming in, it would've they would have never left. Everything was about Intel, and everything was about our chip companies. They stole our chip industry. So I've said that for years. I said, you know, for years they stole our chip if we would have had one of our presidents just say, we're going to say we're going to put 100 percent chip you can leave, you can build in Taiwan, but we're going to you sell it back into the United States, we're going to put a 100 percent or a 200"

Trump was asked about whether Taiwan would feel more or less secure after meetings with Xi Jinping during a trip to Beijing. He addressed a pending arms sale to Taiwan and described Taiwan as a small island close to China. He said Taiwan should feel neutral regarding security. He then shifted to a claim that Taiwan developed due to U.S. presidents not understanding chip policy, arguing that tariffs on chips would have prevented Taiwan’s growth. He asserted that Taiwan “stole” the U.S. chip industry and suggested that chip companies should have been required to sell back into the United States.

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