Haley Calls for End to Normal Trade Relations With China
If she is elected president, Nikki Haley will “push” Congress to revoke permanent normal trade relations with China for as long as Chinese companies continue to send fentanyl precursor chemicals to the U.S. and Mexico, she said during a June 27 event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute. Haley, the former U.N. ambassador during the Trump administration who announced her 2024 presidential candidacy earlier this year, said China is “behind the fentanyl crisis that’s killing tens of thousands of Americans every year,” and Chinese companies “make nearly all of the precursor chemicals that Mexican cartels turn into fentanyl.”
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“We’ve tried sanctions, but they’re not working,” Haley said. “We must ratchet up the pressure” by ending normal trade relations with Beijing. ‘If China wants to start normal trade again,” she said, “it will stop killing Americans.”