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TRUMP ON CHINA • PUTTING AMERICA FIRST



REMARKS BY DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
MATT POTTINGER

The Miller Center at the University of Virginia
MAY 4, 2020

Deputy National Security Advisor Pottinger describes policy options to President Trump and Vice President Pence in a July 2020 cabinet meeting about China.

Good morning everyone. I’m Matt Pottinger, the Deputy National Security Advisor, speaking to you from the White House. I bring warm greetings from the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

We gather today online, from a thousand different places, because a pandemic still prohibits us from meeting in person. But through the marvel of the Internet, we have managed to come together as an even bigger group than if there had been no public health emergency. In ways big and small, we are all tapping our ingenuity as Americans, as

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