Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171218:09

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171218:09:25:00

>> reporter: well, we are expecting the president to criticize china. exactly how far he plans to go, we're not exactly sure yet. but in a way, it won't really come as a surprise. i mean, if you remember all the way back to campaign 2016, candidate trump was extremely critical of china. at one point, he actually accused china of raping the u.s. economically, but when the president took office back in january, he kind of dialed back from a lot of that criticism of china and didn't really take a lot of the economic punitive measures that we were expecting. that has started to change over the last couple months. we've seen two investigations launched by the united states into intellectual property theft and also steel dumping in terms of aluminum foil against the chinese, so we have started to see signs that the trump administration is starting to take a harsher approach against china. why does all that matter? well, there's this other big issue in asia, and that, of course, would be north korea. the united states under the trump administration has tried to work with china and kind of

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