advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens? i give china great credit. but in actuality i do blame past administrations for allowing this out of control trade deficit to take place and to grow. rectifying the trade deficit between the united states and china is not going to be done overnight. it will take years if it can ever be rectified totally. faster movement might be done on the opioid crisis. he said china has to stop dropping precursor drugs for fentanyl and take a greater action here in china to crack down on people who are illegally producing drugs and shipping those to the united states. one other point the president heads tomorrow to vietnam. we re headed there tonight to the apec conference. no decision whether he will meet with vladimir putin.