US President Donald Trump speaks to CBS’ “60 Minutes” information program on Oct. 31, 2025, from Mar-a-Lago in Florida. (nonetheless from YouTube)
In an interview televised on the CBS program “60 Minutes” on Sunday, US President Donald Trump stated that working with China is best than making an attempt to decouple from it. Trump was describing the commerce deal he just lately reached with China following a tariff brawl that has been raging since he returned to the White Home.
“I’ve at all times felt [. . .] it’s higher to get together with China than not,” Trump stated through the interview, which was held at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Seaside, Florida, on Friday. “I feel we might be larger, higher, and stronger by working with them versus simply knocking them out of the economic system.”
When CBS reporter Norah O’Donnell famous that the Chinese language “steal American mental property and Individuals’ private data” and requested “how massive of a risk” China poses, Trump stated, “We’re a risk to them too. Lots of the issues that you simply say, we do to them. Look, this can be a very aggressive world, particularly in the case of China and the US. And we’re at all times watching them, and so they’re at all times watching us.”
Through the interview, Trump ducked a query about whether or not the US would defend Taiwan in opposition to a Chinese language invasion.
When O’Donnell requested whether or not Trump would “order US forces to defend Taiwan” in opposition to army motion by Chinese language President Xi Jinping, Trump stated, “You’ll discover out if it occurs. And [Xi] understands the reply to that.”
Trump added that Taiwan “by no means even got here up yesterday,” referring to his summit with Xi in Busan on Thursday.
When O’Donnell pressed the difficulty, Trump stated that Xi “has brazenly stated, and his individuals have brazenly stated at conferences, ‘We’d by no means do something whereas President Trump is president,’ as a result of they know the implications.”
Trump additionally informed the interviewer that the US wouldn’t permit Nvidia to promote China its most superior chips. “No, we gained’t try this,” the president stated.
“Nvidia’s the prime firm on this planet for that. And we’ll let [China] cope with Nvidia, however not when it comes to probably the most superior [chips]. Probably the most superior, we is not going to let anyone have them apart from the USA.”
When O’Donnell requested if Trump was involved that China would possibly “win the AI race” if it had entry to these superior chips, Trump stated, “Properly, they wouldn’t win it essentially, however they would definitely have an equal benefit.”
By Kim Received-chul, Washington correspondent
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