National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow sat down with FOX News Channel's Chris Wallace (below), CNN's Jake Tapper (above), and syndicated radio host John Catsimatidis (bottom) on Sunday morning to discuss President Trump's threat of $100 billion of additional tariffs against China.



He told FNC's Wallace that Trump is "not bluffing" on the threat and told CNN's Tapper that he would support "pulling the trigger" on additional tariffs.



"President Trump is right. We have to do this. We have to get China to change its behavior. It’s been two decades, and they’re still stealing our intellectual property," Larry Kudlow told AM 970 host John Catsimatidis in an interview that aired Sunday morning. "They’re still forcing technology turnovers from our businesses to them. They still have high tariffs. They still have trade barriers. They still have market closings instead of market openings."











"No tariffs have been implemented. Now, they may be over time, they may be, depending on whether China wants to talk to us and negotiate,” Kudlow said. "A lot of this is going to depend on China. So far China has not responded to President Trump on these … you know, they’re stealing our technology, they have tall trade barriers, and they’re breaking a lot of laws."



"I know there are some jitters out there," Kudlow told FOX News Sunday. "This is a problem caused by China... The whole world knows it… Trump is there to fix the problem."





Via FOX News:





WALLACE: Nobody is saying that China isn't to blame here. The question is, the president's response. As you point out, you are a tree trader.



Here is what you said just last month when President Trump announced his first round of tariffs. And this wasn't an announcement. This was real imposition of tariffs on aluminum and steel. Here you are.



KUDLOW: Tariff hikes are prosperity killers. They always have been and they always will be. Tariffs are taxes and the ones who suffer most are the users.



WALLACE: So who should we believe, that Larry Kudlow or this one?



KUDLOW: I thought you might run that. I’m opposed to blanket tariffs and that's where it first started.



WALLACE: But that's what the president is talking about?



KUDLOW: No, he has changed his view, even on the national security action. We've got a lot of exceptions and a lot of carve-outs.



WALLACE: But you’re not talking about carve-outs or exceptions for China.



KUDLOW: Well, hang on. So, I oppose the blanket tariffs, I always do.



Now, with respect to China, I’ve always been a hard-liner on China, and while I don't like tariffs, sometimes there is no substitution for putting tariffs into the discussion, into the process. That is part of the quiver of arrows that the president has.



Look, he’s a great negotiator. He has a whole history of that. But in this process, tariffs have to be part of it. There's no two ways about it. Then, hopefully, there will be discussions and hopefully, in just the next two months, the Chinese will come seriously back to the table.



President Trump has told me, we were together a long time on Thursday and Friday. He likes President Xi. They get along. He respects President Xi as a negotiator, but they have not played by the rules, Chris. This has been going on.



Technology is everything to this country, everything -- our entrepreneurship, our innovation, our future growth, our productivity. We cut corporate tax rates precisely to unlock the animal spirits around technology.



We cannot let China willy-nilly steal our technology.