Haley Campaign Press Release - Haley Hammers on the China Threat

CHARLESTON, S.C. – This morning, presidential candidate Nikki Haley sat down with CNBC's Squawk Box and Fox Business' Varney and Co. to discuss her plan to combat the growing China threat.

Varney: "You are the only Republican candidate who claims a China plan."

"China is our number one national security threat, we need to start treating them like that. No more allowing them to buy U.S. soil, and get back what they've already taken. They're doing it near military installations, it's a threat... No more passing fentanyl across the border, they know exactly what they are doing. We need to make sure we deal with the cartels and we deal with China."

Haley on CNBC's Squawk Box

"If you look at Yellen's conversation she said well, 'It shouldn't be a winner take all scenario, we should play by the rules.' To even say that means you don't understand China. China only plays with a winner take all scenario. They've never played by the rules. They don't see us as a competitor, they see us as an enemy. This is the biggest threat we've had since Pearl Harbor."

"I spoke to 400 CEO's last summer and I said, 'If China pulls the rug out from under us tomorrow, will you be ready?' Every company needs to have a plan B. The way America needs to look at it is just through a national security lens. Are we ready?" "That's the problem, too many people are thinking about the dollars and cents. Are you still going to be thinking about the dollars and cents, do you still think about the dollars and cents knowing that China has now put a military installation in Cuba?"