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President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
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Leader of China since 2012
Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who is the paramount leader of China. He has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Party Central Military Commission (CMC) since 2012, and as the president of China and chairman of the State Central Military Commission since 2013.
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Donald Trump’s ambassador to China, David Perdue, says the US president asked Xi Jinping whether China wanted to buy American weapons. The bigger question may be what that says about Taiwan.
U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said Trump raised the idea of arms sales from the U.S. to Xi, in an offer that would have upended generations of U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan.
President Donald Trump has disputed that he asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States. That contradicts an account from the U.S. ambassador