Trump asked China’s president if he wants to buy U.S. arms, ambassador says
The U.S. ambassador to China stated that former President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to purchase U.S. weapons.
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.
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