Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first confirmed phone call of Trump’s second term in June. Trump had previously claimed in April that Xi had called him, though he did not clarify when that conversation occurred
US President Donald Trump has said that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, has told him that Taiwan will not be invaded during the Republican leader’s presidency.
“I will tell you, you know, you have a very similar thing with President Xi of China and Taiwan, but I don’t believe there’s any way it’s going to happen as long as I’m here. We’ll see,” Trump told Fox News ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He added, “He told me, ‘I will never do it as long as you’re president’. President Xi told me that and I said, ‘Well, I appreciate that, ’ but he also said, ‘But I am very patient and China is very patient. ’”
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first confirmed phone call of Trump’s second term in June. Trump had previously claimed in April that Xi had called him, though he did not clarify when that conversation occurred.
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