McFarland to Newsmax: Trump Has ‘Leverage’ Over China

K.T. McFarland, former deputy national security adviser in the Trump administration, told Newsmax on Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump will have “leverage” over China once he takes office.

“China’s economy depends on exporting a lot of stuff to us, and we don’t need to buy the Chinese stuff,” McFarland said in an interview on “Newsline.”

“There are a lot of other places we could get the kind of goods that China sells … That was a fundamental aspect of President Trump’s first term, which is you can use that as leverage and get a good trade deal.

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