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January 22, 2020 "We are by far the largest economy in the world". US President Donald Trump said this at an unscheduled press conference in Davos. "China was getting closer, it was predicted that it would become the largest economy by 2019, but we are bigger than they are," he added. We are an unprecedented economic power, Trump said.

Best relations with China ever
"We have, I would say, the best relations we have ever had with China": this is how the US president Donald Trump praised in a "new big deal" with Beijing at a press conference in Davos.

Trump: EU must negotiate new agreement
The European Union "has no other choice" than to negotiate a new trade agreement with the United States. American President Donald Trump said so in an interview granted today to CNBC on the sidelines of the Davos Economic Forum. Trump said yesterday that the United States is ready to impose tariffs on cars imported from the EU in the absence of an agreement.

In the interview granted today, the American president said the EU has "taken advantage" of the United States and that it now has "no choice" other than to make a deal. "We have had a huge deficit for many, many years, amounting to over 150 billion dollars with Europe," he said.

"Virus China, we have a plan to manage it"
"We have a plan and we think it will be managed very well": so the US president, Donald Trump, at the CNBC in Davos, speaking of the Chinese viral pneumonia virus after the first case registered in the US. "He is a person from China. He is under control. Everything will be fine," said Trump.