Trump sees China as a threat, would work hard to re-elect him: Nikki Haley

Haley said on Wednesday that the threat China poses to the US would be one of the factors in the November presidential elections

US President Donald Trump sees China as a threat, Republican leader and Indian American Nikki Haley said, adding that she would campaign and work “very hard” to get him re-elected in the November elections. Addressing the virtual India Ideas Summit organized by US India Business Council, Haley said on Wednesday that the threat China poses to the US would be one of the factors in the November presidential elections.

“I think that (security threat from China) will be one factor (in the elections). I think that you have president Trump who very much sees China as a threat,” Nikki Haley said in response to a question in the concluding session of the two-day India Ideas Summit, that among others was addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

“I think that you have (Democratic nominee) Joe Biden, who has said that China is not the problem and who was against the travel ban to China and who has not shown, in any of his time that he was in the Obama administration, as realizing the threat that China had. So, I think it will be one of the factors that’s going to be very important in this next election,” she said.