The United States has learned from the coronavirus pandemic that it is "dangerously dependent" on the supply chain coming out of China, but President Donald Trump will defend the nation's blue-collar workers from the threat posed overseas, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Monday. 

"If we learned anything from the China virus, the Communist China virus experience here, it is that we are dangerously dependent on China for essential medicines, N95 masks, all manner of things," said Navarro on Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo.

"Of course, we [have] already begun to do it with the tariffs President Trump put on China. They have been very successful."

The trade deficit with China peaked in 2018 but has been coming down as the U.S. sees manufacturing come back to the states, he added. 

"Nobody wants to invest in China anymore," he said. "The whole world knows that that is a risky proposition, but this is going to be a battle. The Trump trade policy and tariff policy will be central to bringing things onshore here ... don't forget, [Joe] Biden let China in World Health Organization and we lost 70,000 factories and 5 million manufacturing jobs."

Meanwhile, China says its economy is growing, and Navarro said that he doesn't know if he believes the numbers being reported, but "I do believe they are exploiting this virus. It raises questions as to how the virus got here and killed over 200,000 Americans."

Navarro also on Monday praised the Trump administration for its pro-business role, including in Michigan with the fracking of the Antrim Shale formation, which employs more than 50,000 people either directly or indirectly. 

"That is thriving under President Trump," said Navarro. It would "get shut down under Joe Biden." 

He also brought up the tariffs on Turkey over tart cherries, as well as the tariffs on imported washing machines, which protected the Whirlpool manufacturers in Ohio and Michigan. 

"If you went and got rid of fracking, got rid of tariffs, cut the defense budget, I mean it would just not be a pretty picture, in the Wolverine State," said Navarro. 

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