JAKARTA - US President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping not to supply weapons to Iran.
"I heard that China is giving weapons to, I mean - you see it everywhere - to Iran," Trump claimed in an interview with Fox Business, Wednesday, April 15.
Trump claimed Xi responded to his request by saying he would not provide weapons to Iran.
"And I wrote him a letter asking him not to do that, and he replied to my letter basically saying he wouldn't do it," Trump claimed.
NBC News quoted a source as saying that US intelligence found that China planned to provide Iran with new air defense weapons in the coming weeks.
Another US media that reported this was CNN. CNN first reported on the US intelligence information, which made Trump again threaten to impose an additional 50 percent tariff on Chinese goods.
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