DHAKA: Donald Trump has compared the US’s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape.

Trump has frequently accused China of manipulating its currency to make its exports more competitive on the global market and has claimed that China is "killing" the US on trade, CNN publishes the report on Monday (May 2).

Trump has used the term ‘rape’ to refer to what he views as China's dominance in trade with the US.

“We’re going to turn it around. And we have the cards, don’t forget it. We’re like the piggy bank that’s being robbed.”

“We have the cards. We have a lot of power with China,” Trump said before referring to China’s relationship with the US as rape.

Trump added that he is not ‘angry at China’, but with US leaders whom he accused of being ‘grossly incompetent’.

BDST: 1331 HRS, MAY 02, 2016
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