"China has already started buying. They want to buy. They want to make a deal. They really have to make a deal. Their economy has been hurt very badly by what we’ve done and by the tariffs that we’ve charged.

And we’ve taken in tremendous amounts of tariffs. A small portion of them we’ve given to the farmer, which — the farmers — which has more than made up for what they’ve lost...

And because of the newfound economic power of the United States, because of the fact that we’ve made so many trillions — many, many trillions of dollars in worth of the United States — I call it the 'newfound economic power' — if my opponent would’ve won, China would right now be the most powerful nation, economically, in the world. And, right now, they’re not even close."

Source: Donald Trump, "Remarks by President Trump and President Mattarella of the Italian Republic before Bilateral Meeting," whitehouse.gov, Oct. 16, 2019