President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States would be open to Chinese automakers building vehicles domestically, provided they employ American workers, despite his opposition to Chinese-made cars entering the U.S. market.

“If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I’d be okay with that,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle.

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