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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China wants to buy US arms, ambassador says
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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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David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island
The U.S. ambassador to China says President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States.
President Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping if he was interested in purchasing American weapons, according to US ambassador to China David Perdue.