July 19, 2018

Steve Bannon, former top advisor to Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the U.S. has been embroiled in a trade conflict with China for decades.

"We're at war with China," Bannon said, praising Trump for taking on the Chinese. "We're winning."

Bannon was speaking at CNBC's Delivering Alpha event Wednesday.

His appearance comes on the heels of a provocative statement he gave to CNBC on Tuesday in which he said Trump knows he needs to "unite the West against the rise of a totalitarian China."

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