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  "id": 10544407,
  "title": "Trump denies offering to sell arms to China’s Xi",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/trump-denies-offering-to-sell-arms-to-chinas-xi-10544407",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T21:17:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
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    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2026/09/29/trump-denies-offering-to-sell-arms-to-china-s-xi"
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  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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.",
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        "outlet": "Business Recorder",
        "title": "Trump denies offering to sell arms to China's Xi",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/trump-denies-offering-to-sell-arms-to-chinas-xi",
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        "title": "Trump denies offering to sell arms to China’s Xi",
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        "outlet": "Handelsblatt",
        "title": "Diplomacy: US arms sale to China? Trump denies offer to Xi",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/diplomatie-us-waffenverkauf-an-china-trump-dementiert-angebot-an-xi",
        "published": "2026-09-28T22:46:06.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Daily Times",
        "title": "Trump asked China’s president if he wanted to buy US arms, ambassador says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/trump-asked-chinas-president-if-he-wanted-to-buy-us-arms-ambassador",
        "published": "2026-09-28T22:51:54.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "Trump contradicts US envoy over reported offer to sell arms to China’s Xi",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/trump-contradicts-us-envoy-over-reported-offer-to-sell-arms-to-chinas",
        "published": "2026-09-29T01:00:03.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Japan Times",
        "title": "Trump denies offering to sell arms to China’s Xi",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/trump-denies-offering-to-sell-arms-to-chinas-xi",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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