Pool report 8

More highlights from the Oval Office event. Below are POTUS' quotes on China.

On a meeting with Xi:

“No I haven’t canceled but I don’t know that we’re gonna have it but I’m gonna be there regardless so I would assume we might have it. But, you know, they hit the world with something that really is not anything that people are gonna do. And and it's, it was shocking, I can tell you, Howard and I and Todd, we all, we all, Scott, we were all speaking about it before. And it was, we said where did that come from? It was just, that was out of the blue. Right. Out of the blue, they came up with this whole import export concept, and nobody, nobody knew anything about it.”

On if China rolls back export controls:

“We're gonna have to see what happens. That's why I made it November 1. We'll see what happens.”

On what else could be on the table besides software in terms of export controls:

“You have a lot more. We have airplanes. We have airplane parts. You remember that from last time? We were just surprised that China, have a very good relationship with President Xi, and they did that. This is not something that I you know instigated. This was just a response to something that they did, and they didn't really aim it at us. They aimed it at the whole world. The whole world is subject to it. So I thought it was very, very bad. But we have many things, including a big thing is airplane. They have a lot of Boeing planes, and they need parts and lots of things like that.”

Luke Broadwater

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