President Trump decries ‘sinister and hostile’ move from China
On Friday, President Trump announced that China has made a strategic move to attempt to implement export controls across the globe on rare earth minerals – a decision that he says he will counter
by Summer Lane | October 10, 2025
President Donald Trump on Friday slammed China for a “sinister and hostile” move on their part as the communist superpower attempts to place export controls weeks before what may have been a critical meeting between President Trump and President Xi Jinping.
In a lengthy statement posted to Truth Social, President Trump wrote, “Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would ‘clog’ the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere.”
He said America’s relationship with China has been “very good” over the past six months, which makes this trade decision “surprising.”
“I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right!” the president added. “There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World ‘captive,’ but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the ‘Magnets’ and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least.”
President Trump was scheduled to meet with President Xi in a few weeks during a summit in South Korea, but it looks like this move from China has put such a meeting on hold.
“I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so,” President Trump said pointedly in his statement.
He called the Chinese letters on export controls “especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I wonder if that timing was coincidental?”
On Thursday, the House Select Committee on the CCP Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mi., condemned China’s actions.
“China has fired a loaded gun at the American economy, seeking to cut off critical minerals used to make the semiconductors that power the American military, economy, and devices we use every day including cars, phones, computers, and TVs,” the chairman said in a statement.
He added, “Every American will be negatively affected by China’s action, and that’s why we must address America’s vulnerabilities and build our own leverage against China.”
President Trump has vowed to “financially counter” China’s move and noted that “for every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two.”
He said this could be a “potentially painful” time for America and China, but in the end, “it will be a very good thing.”
President Trump also said that his administration is considering a “massive increase” in tariffs on Chinese products, as well as other “countermeasures” that he did not reveal at this time.
