President Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping if he was interested in purchasing American weapons, US Ambassador to China David Perdue said on Sunday.
“President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.’ He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point,” Perdue told “Fox News Sunday” in a surprise admission.
The Post reached out to the White House for clarification on whether Trump was serious or just trolling his Chinese counterpart.
The revelation comes after China is believed to have acquired sensitive F-35 fighter jet parts that had been sent to Hong Kong, for reasons that are not entirely clear.
During Xi’s three-day visit to the US, he and Trump discussed America’s arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island off China’s coast which Beijing claims as its territory.
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