Former US President Donald Trump said he will "get along well with China" and did not think that nations and others like Russia are the "enemies" that President Biden's administration considers them.
"I think we'll get along great with China," the Republican presidential candidate said on Monday during an online interview on X Spaces that again brought out his foreign policy ambivalence and his mercurial approach to policy.
The threat stands in stark contrast to his statements during his current campaign in which he threatens to impose tariffs of 60 per cent or more on imports from China.
While being the President, he had termed China of "malfeasance" responsible for spreading Covid 19 and stated it "raided our factories, offshored our jobs, gutted our industries, stole our intellectual property".
Trying to wrap his mantle as peacemaker in that current stage, he added: "I think we'll get along great with Russia. I want to get Russia to settle up with Ukraine and stop this millions of people being killed".
He again repeated his previous claim that he wanted "to end the Ukraine war before I even take office, want to get that done as President-elect.".
Trump was addressing the launch of his family-owned cryptocurrency enterprise, World Liberty Financial.
His son, 18-year-old Barron, who has kept largely out of the public eye since starting college this semester, is said to have been a part of the business and whose understanding of cryptocurrency his father spoke of.
Trump said he would make the US the "cryptocurrency capital of the world," and that if the US wasn't going to address the issue, China would lead the field.
Trump talking about it during the election campaign is another instance of him combining politics and business, and if he were elected would present a potential conflict.
An ardent critic of Biden, on Monday, he assumed a conciliatory demeanor toward him during the interview.
"He was very nice, that he called up to make sure that I was OK," Trump said.
Biden also asked him about the security measures and if "we need more people on my detail," he added.
The President, he said, was the victim of a coup engineered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others.
I thought he was treated really unfairly… he went to a primary system, he won, and then they threw him overboard," he added.
His now Democratic Party opponent Vice-President Kamala Harris "got no votes," he said.
Repeating the old line of creating a Red Scare, Trump said, "She'd be very bad for the country. We have to save our country-we cannot play games-so we can't have a Marxist communist as the President."
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