Trump heads to China this week to meet Xi as Iran war and trade disputes loom over summit – US politics live
It will be the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, with the last visit being Trump in 2017 Hello and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to China this week to meet with Xi Jinping , China’s leader. It will be the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, with the last visit being Trump in 2017. But given all that has happened so far in Trump’s second term – a trade war and then an actual war with Iran
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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump reiterated that Iran’s peace proposal was “just unacceptable”.
The president went on to insist that he had a “very simple plan”, and maintained that Tehran could not have a nuclear weapon, without elaborating on the next negotiating steps.
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