Former US President and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump speaks during a statesmanlike statement with US Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris astatine the National Constitution Center successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, connected September 10, 2024.
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris clashed connected China argumentation during the statesmanlike statement hosted by ABC News connected Tuesday nighttime stateside.
Trump defended his caller vows to summation commercialized duties, including broad tariffs of 10% to 20% and further tariffs of 60% to 100% connected China.
"Other countries are going to finally, aft 75 years, wage america backmost for each that we've done for the world, and the tariff volition beryllium substantial," the erstwhile president said, adding that his medication had taken successful "billions and billions of dollars" from China.
He besides pointed retired that the Biden-Harris medication maintained astir of the Trump administration's tariffs connected China.
"They ne'er took the tariff off, due to the fact that it was truthful overmuch money. They can't, it would wholly destruct everything that they've acceptable retired to do," helium said.
Trump besides downplayed concerns that his tariff argumentation would summation prices for consumers.
"What's going to hap and who's going to person higher prices is China and each of the countries that person been ripping america disconnected for years."
Meanwhile, Harris argued that the Trump medication was anemic connected China.
"Under Donald Trump's presidency, helium ended up selling American chips to China to assistance them amended and modernize their military," Harris said successful evident notation to the existent administration's ramped-up efforts to restrict the merchantability of precocious semiconductors to adversaries.
"[He] fundamentally sold america retired erstwhile a argumentation astir China should beryllium successful making definite the United States of America wins the contention for the 21st century," she said.
"What that requires, focusing connected relationships with our allies, focusing connected investing successful American-based exertion truthful that we triumph the race, connected AI, connected quantum computing, focusing connected what we request to bash to enactment America's workforce."
Economists and argumentation experts previously told CNBC that Trump's economical argumentation connected China successful a 2nd word would beryllium expected to absorption connected dense commercialized tariffs. In contrast, Harris is expected to absorption much connected targeted restrictions coordinated with U.S. allies.
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