Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Newsmax on Tuesday that threatening or scolding China as a means of bending them to our will is not as effective as the stick and carrot approach.

Paul joined “Eric Bolling The Balance” to react to the Biden administration threatening China over the weekend if its companies support Russia’s war against Ukraine. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned of “significant consequences” during remarks made in China.

“Well, there’s a stick and a carrot. I mean, you tell China — and you’re right, China owns a lot of different companies that are involved here — you tell them they can’t do it or else, well, I don’t know that that necessarily is the way they’re going to respond to that,” Paul told Bolling. “That’s the stick, where’s the carrot?

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