and to protect our industrial back, i placed tariffs on foreign aluminum and foreign steel and also fighting back against years of chronic trade abuse from china, and also the supply chain of china. which is unbreakable, and it s breaking wide open. [cheers and applause] they understand, i don t blame china what s going on, i blame the people that lead our people that let that happen. hundreds of billions of dollars a year has taken from our country to build china. the previous administration they put our nations natural resources under lock and key including thousands and
in beautiful tokyo. and kristin, what is the goal for the trip for the president besides getting a nice tan on the golf course today? reporter: well obviously trade is going to be front and center as you talked about, kendis, the president engaged in a major trade standoff and a trade war with china. he wants to get a bilateral trade deal with japan. will he be able to do it? it is going to be very difficult and in part because there are parliamenty elections next month but a number of sticking points. the u.s. accuses japan of having a $56.8 billion trade surplus. the president frequently accused japan for having chronic trade surpluses. take a listen on what he had to say on that point today when he spoke to the business leaders. as you know the united states and japan are hard at work negotiating a bilatter trade agreement to benefit both of our countries.
a lot of this has been simmering but. in a sense at the moment it s exacerbated because the u.s. seem to be to some extent changing their positions to some extent don t seem to take a very decisive stance anywhere in the region and therefore new powers including the regional powers are setting themselves in a much stronger way ok affright i think we i think we have scratched the surface over an extremely large and complicated situation i thank you for guiding us through it thank you thank you. protectionism versus globalization that is the clash of visions of the apec summit of asia pacific leaders and we have now u.s. president donald trump came out fighting with his america first message denouncing what he called chronic trade abuses that in some countries huge surpluses china s present asian ping whoever it was all about the g word globalization you know they are from this day forward we will compete on a fair and equal basis we are not going to let the united states be taken advant
to learn about some of these guys. are many experimentation has become part of the team s d.n.a. in recent times the world champions know that friendly s are the best stage to test new ideas without too much on the line. a quick reminder now of the top stories that we have been following for you here are you u.s. president donald trump has said that the u.s. will no longer tolerate chronic trade abuses but welcomes fair trade partners made his remarks at a summit of regional economic leaders in vietnam the fourth stop on his inaugural tour of asia and french president emmanuel mccall has paid a surprise visit to saudi arabia he said that he wanted to discuss the war in yemen and a wrong with crown prince muhammad bill been psalm on less recently moved to consolidate his control of the oil rich nation. up to date i m sara kelly in berlin thanks so
cannot tolerate what he called chronic trade abuse that. policy could make him the odd man out as the region pushes ahead with a free trade deal without the united states that could benefit the man who used see here china s president xi jinping it was hoping to take up the u.s. mantle as the global leader of free trade. said that his country was prepared to re-evaluate its trade relationships let s have a listen. from this day forward we will compete on a fair and equal basis we are not going to let the united states be taken advantage of anymore i am always going to put america first the same way that i expect all of you in this room to put your country s first and that is a message that we have heard before from donald trump including on the campaign trail investors around the world though still listening to hear for any slight