Trump departs Beijing, en route to U.S. after multi-day summit – One America News Network

Speaking to the press on Air Force One, he called Xi “an incredible guy.”

After the Chinese president’s minister of foreign affairs announced that Taiwan was a top priority in talks with Trump, questions arose about the outcome of such discussions.

Although Xi “feels very strongly” about the Island and the Taiwan Strait, Trump said, “I made no commitment either way.”

“I think the last thing we need right now is a war that’s 9,500 miles away,” he later remarked.

 

China has made its intention to claim Taiwan as part of its territory clear. Taiwan is home to the world’s most dominant semiconductor manufacturing company, providing chips for smartphones, computers, vehicles, artificial intelligence systems and military technology. The waterway that separates it from mainland China is also one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors.

Trump indicated that Xi asked him whether he’d defend Taiwan, a self-governed democratic island.

“I said, I don’t talk about that,” he noted.

 

Another pressing issue discussed by the two presidents was the conflict in Iran. Trump reiterated to reporters on his plane what the White House announced after their bilateral meeting on Thursday — that Xi agrees with the United States’ stern policy against Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.

“On Iran, it’s very interesting, he feels strongly they can’t have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said of Xi.

“We feel very similar about [how] we want it to end,” he said of the conflict.

 

Trump warned that his patience with Iran was wearing thin after weeks of swapping peace proposals.

“I am not going to be much more patient,” Trump said in an ​interview aired on Thursday night on Fox News’ “Hannity” program. “They should make a deal.”

On the same program, he declared that President Xi committed to withholding military equipment from Iran during one of their discussions.

“He said he’s not going to give military equipment. That’s a big statement. He said that today,” Trump told host Sean Hannity. “He said that strongly, but at the same time he said you know they buy a lot of their oil there and they’d like to keep doing that.”

Zhang Xiaogang, a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, told reporters late last month that the notion that China is supplying weapons to Iran is “the spread of false information.”

Overall, the president said “a lot of good” came from his most recent in-person meeting with the Chinese leader.

“We’ve settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve,” he said. “We’ve made some fantastic trade deals for both countries.”

Over a dozen CEOs of major American companies, including SpaceX, Apple and Mastercard, accompanied Trump to China’s capital. The two countries reached a breakthrough trade deal when Xi agreed to purchase 200 jets from Boeing, an American company that was also represented by its CEO on the trip.

“200 big ones. That’s a lot of jobs, a lot,” Trump commented, speaking to Hannity. “Boeing wanted 150, they got 200.”