Robert E. Lighthizer: “It is not about aid, it is about trade. And it is not about short-term bailouts, it is about long-term business.”

We know that just sitting around blathering hasn't worked for 25 or 30 years, so we have to try something new.

Hang tough. This is really, really, really important. We have to do things that lead to reform in China.

But I have real concerns with the way the Administration has approached the problem, creating and escalating a trade war that has caused harm to many businesses.

There is a long history of failure by China to protect intellectual property.