Robert E. Lighthizer: “there is a long history of failure by China to protect intellectual property.”

We ought to be manufacturing these things in the United States. That is what our objective is.

The kind of rules we need, by the way, I would just point out, are in USMCA, right? That is, like, the gold standard for all of this stuff.

I think they have been victims, as much as anybody in America, of what goes on in China.

To suggest that what we are doing is not sophisticated or nuanced is nonsense.