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.”

The President wants Chinese investment, just like he wants everybody else's investment.

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.

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

Total chaos on trade isn't going to create a single red, white, and blue job.