President Donald Trump has forged a good relationship with China's President Xi Jinping, but the nations do have their differences, including on intellectual property rights and forced technology transfers, so reforms must be seen in that regard, Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview airing Friday.
"These are the big-ticket items and we have been clear with Chinese leadership that these are the things that have to be addressed," Pence told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo in an interview airing Friday. "President Trump will meet with President Xi at the G20 in just a few weeks and we remain hopeful that China will step forward."
There had been great progress made, but China started to "step backward," but still the United States is in a "very strong position" with tariffs that were imposed.
Trump hopes that a deal can be reached with China, but also wants to reset the relationship, said Pence, as American jobs and workers come first.
Meanwhile, the issue of Huawei Technologies remains a matter of national security, as the company is a "wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party, said Pence.
"To have Huawei operating as a 5g network in our country or in our allies' countries, we believe, represents a fundamental compromise of national security and the privacy of millions of citizens," said Pence. "We will continue to communicate that message very strongly to allies in Canada and all over the western world, but we are also going to continue to promote alternatives for 5G networks."
Pence said the administration knows it can meet the global need for 5G with enterprises that respect U.S. values, privacy and individual rights while protecting individual property and preserving national security.
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