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POLITICS● LOW1h ago · Sep 28, 2026, 4:06 AM

Trump asked Xi if Beijing wanted US weapons: a joke, a gambit or something more?

South China Morning Post · global

Donald Trump asked President Xi Jinping whether Beijing wanted to buy American weapons, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday, prompting the State Department to quickly rule out any such deal with Washington’s principal strategic competitor. “He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point,” the ambassador David Perdue said on Fox News after Xi’s state visit to the White House last week. He did not say when Trump raised the question, what prompted it, or how the...

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