Robert E. Lighthizer: “The Trump Administration wants to expand economic freedom, wants to expand trade, believes that we can reduce our trade…”

In our view, you can't be in the position where we are the residual of Chinese state capitalism.

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

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.