Robert E. Lighthizer: “In our view, you can't be in the position where we are the residual of Chinese state capitalism.”

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.

Yes, the answer is yes, it is having an impact, and it is way beyond China, and it is costing us jobs.

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.

I don't think it's fair to say that anything that hurts our economy is national security.