Trump denies offering to sell arms to China’s Xi
Donald Trump says they would probably like to buy American weapons because the US makes better equipment, but the two leaders did not discuss it.
US President Donald Trump has firmly denied his envoy's claim that he had offered to sell arms to China's Xi Jinping during the latter's state visit to the White House. According to Trump, he never discussed the possibility of arm sales with Xi. Trump's assertion comes in response to US Ambassador to China David Perdue's statement to Fox News, where he alleged that Trump had made such an offer during the visit.
Perdue's claim was made in response to Chinese concerns over US weapons sales to Taiwan. The US government, however, maintains that it has no plans to sell weapons to China.
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