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  "id": 10342145,
  "title": "Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/trump-asked-chinas-president-if-he-wants-to-buy-us-arms-ambassador-10342145",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T02:42:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20260928/trump-asked-chinas-president-if-he-wants-to-buy-us-arms-ambassador-says"
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  "account": "Washington — President Donald Trump's potential arms sale to Taiwan has been presented by Chinese President Xi Jinping as a benign, one among many sales the U.S. makes globally, according to Trump's ambassador to China, David Perdue. Perdue claimed that Trump probed Xi about potential U.S. arms purchases, an unconventional proposal that, if implemented, would contravene longstanding U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan. Perdue did not specify when this proposition occurred. On \"Fox News Sunday,\" Perdue, responding to Shannon Bream's inquiries, dismissed suggestions that the U.S. is withholding aid and weapons from Taiwan to mollify Xi, who had met with Trump the previous week.",
  "summary": "WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.S. arms, Trump’s ambassador to China said on Sunday. David Perdue said Trump raised the prospect of the arms sales from the U.S. to its ascendant…",
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