Trump says China ‘will own the US’ if Joe Biden wins US election as he blasts presidential rival at RNC
PRESIDENT Donald Trump claims that China will "own this country" if Joe Biden wins the 2020 presidential election this fall.
On the first day of the Republican National Convention, Trump spoke in Charlotte, North Carolina and told a crowd of supporters that China will own the Untied States if Biden is elected.
"They own him and they want me to lose so badly," he said.
In Charlotte, Trump claimed that "we built China," giving the country anywhere from $200 billion to $550 billion over the past 25 years.
Trump signed an initial order against TikTok on August 6, invoking a corporate blacklist against trading with Chinese parent firm ByteDance.
Then just a week later, Trump gave ByteDance a September deadline to find a US buyer for TikTok.
This deadline was later extended to November 12, after which point TikTok faces a national ban.
Several tech companies have been linked to a TikTok buy-out, including Microsoft, Apple and Twitter.
A recent report suggested that Microsoft could strike a $30billion deal to buy TikTok in a matter of days.
President Trump is expected to speak every night of the Republican party's convention this week and will address the renomination for a second-term on Thursday.
The president told the crowd that the is the "most important election in the history of our country."