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[M]any are concerned that the WTO is losing its essential focus on negotiation and becoming a litigation-centered organization. Too often members seem to believe they can gain concessions through lawsuits that they could never get at the…
I am committed to negotiating a modernized NAFTA that incorporates robust protections for workers and the environment.
We have to stand up for ourselves and make sure that market forces determine who survives and who doesn't survive.
In our view, you can't be in the position where we are the residual of Chinese state capitalism.
Nobody is declaring war on Canada or saying they're an unfriendly neighbor, they're obviously not.
I realize we have a political system that makes it difficult, but, nonetheless, the reality is an awful lot of our senior politicians do take a long view.
We have a trade deficit with China which is unsustainable, $375 billion, most of which... is a result of state capitalism.
The United States is far better off in bilateral deals. We have the biggest market. We have more leverage.
I don't think it's fair to say that anything that hurts our economy is national security.
I think they do take a longer view, which, by the way, I think is the right view.
I am a complete believer in what you're doing, and if you're saying, is it something that I care about? am I active on? the answer is yes.