United States President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network, which aired this Wednesday (15), that he asked Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a letter, not to supply weapons to Iran
According to the American, Xi responded that China was not supplying weapons to Tehran.
In the interview recorded on Tuesday (14), Trump did not say when the letters were exchanged. Last week he threatened .
“I wrote him a letter asking him not to do it, and he wrote me a letter saying he basically wouldn’t do it,” Trump said on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria.”
He also said he did not expect changes in the global oil market, resulting from the war against Iran and changes in Venezuela, to impact the dynamics of their planned meeting next month. “He’s someone who needs oil. We don’t,” Trump said.
In a later post on the social media site Truth Social, Trump also wrote that he was “opening permanently” and that China was very happy about it.
“I’m doing this for them too — and the world,” Trump wrote, adding, “President Xi will give me a big, warm hug when I get there in a few weeks.”
It was not immediately clear what Trump meant, as browsing the . The White House did not immediately respond to a request for clarification on the president’s post.
Forty-five days after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards declared the closure of the strait, effectively halting about 20% of the global flow of oil and liquefied natural gas, transit through the waterway remains uncertain even with a two-week ceasefire in effect. The traffic represents just a fraction of the more than 130 daily crossings recorded before the war, sources said Tuesday.
Trump said talks with Tehran to end the war could resume this week, after breaking off without a deal over the weekend. However, the US also imposed a blockade on shipping leaving Iranian ports, which, according to the Iranian military, has completely paralyzed maritime trade in and out of the country.
