White House Deputy Chief Of Staff Stephen Miller said that the trade deals that President Donald Trump wants to make will isolate China and push it to negotiate.

“Well, very simply, this is about the President of the United States defending the core national security interests of the United States. China has hollowed out our defense industrial base. This is very important for your viewers to understand,” he said to Fox News host Martha MacCallum.

“America cannot create the essential materials it needs to ensure our security into the future because China has stolen those supply chains. So America, but not just America, our allies around the world are dependent on China for our own defense, for our own economic well-being. That is the national security threat the President is responding to,” the deputy chief of staff said.

“And he’s going to take whatever actions are necessary to ensure that he can keep America safe and that we can live in a country in which American workers and American factories can supply all of the materials and needs for our national security and defense,” he said.

“I believe that China will be forced very soon to come to the table for the simple reason that China’s economy is completely dependent on its exports to the United States and to the West. China has built its entire industrial strategy since its entrance into the World Trade Organization on being able to sell highly subsidized currency-manipulated dumped goods into U.S. markets. It is an industrial strategy from China to product dump strategically to take out American steel, to take out American aluminum, to take out core American defense industries and defense needs so that we’re reliant on China,” the deputy chief of staff said.

“And what’s happening here is that China is now discovering for the first time that they have met an American president who is not going to be intimidated, who’s not going to be bullied, who’s not going to be coerced, who’s going to stand up for our essential security needs. China needs us because of their export dependency on China,” he said.