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Trump asked Xi if China wanted to buy US weapons: Ambassador
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- Sep 29, 2026, 6:35 AM UTC
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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
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