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Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

China has always been very hospitable, but we can choose who enters our house. We could not allow any companies to enter China and make money while hurting the country.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

China is an area where we need to be present. Lots of companies want to supply their products to China.

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.

The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.

We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.

Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.

China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.