现在,特朗普暗示美国不再保卫台湾。在7月17日的彭博社访谈中,特朗普说到:“台湾在9500英里之外,但离中国只有68英里。(对中国是)小小的优势。而且中国很大,他们可以轰击(台湾)。他们甚至不必费这个事,我是说,他们只需要大炮就行。现在他们不这么做,是因为他们不想毁了那些芯片工厂。”(“Taiwan is 9,500 miles away. It’s 68 miles away from China. A slight advantage. And China’s a massive piece of land, they could just bombard it. They don’t even need to – I mean, they can literally just send shells. Now they don’t want to do that because they don’t want to lose all those chip plants.”)
“台湾把我们的芯片生意都拿走了。我是说,我们该有多蠢?他们拿走了我们的芯片生意。他们富得不得了。……我不认为我们(对他们)和保险理赔有什么两样。为什么?我们为什么要这么做?”(“Taiwan took our chip business from us. I mean, how stupid are we? They took all of our chip business. They’re immensely wealthy … I don’t think we’re any different from an insurance policy. Why? Why are we doing this?”)
中国制造打败美国,“不是因为他们有更好的工人,而是因为他们愿意用奴隶在那里制造东西”。“我不喜欢中国。我不喜欢中国抢走了很多美国人的工作岗位。”(I don’t like China. I don’t like that China has stolen a lot of American jobs)。