United States President Donald Trump said this Friday (15) that he discussed the war in the Middle East with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that both do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons and “want the Strait of Hormuz open.”
The two leaders met at Beijing’s walled Zhongnanhai complex as Trump wraps up his state visit to China.
“We solved a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve,” Trump said.
During the second day of negotiations, the presidents focused discussions on future business and what Trump described as a “very strong” relationship with his counterpart.
Xi, Trump said at the start of a bilateral tea party, is “a man I respect very much” and who “has become, in fact, a friend.”
The US president also spoke about Xi’s upcoming visit to Washington, scheduled for the end of this year.
“We’re going to give it our all and we hope you leave here very impressed, just like I was impressed with China,” he said.
Trump and Xi are accompanied, at Friday’s meetings, by a smaller group of high-ranking advisors. The group is expected to discuss it before the president returns to Washington.
Earlier, in an interview with Fox News, with his Chinese counterpart.
“I don’t think a nuclear weapon either. I said, ‘Don’t get too excited that they have a nuclear weapon,'” Trump told Sean Hannity in an interview held this Thursday in Beijing.
*with information from Reuters
