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President Donald Trump offered to sell weapons to China during President Xi Jinping’s recent summit in Washington, a move foreign policy experts said makes a mockery of U.S. warnings about the looming Chinese military threat.
Key facts
- While Trump has characterized China as a strategic competitor, and referenced that when rejecting calls to slow down AI development, the president has also expressed affinity for dictators like Xi
- News Sunday, David Purdue, the U.S. ambassador to China, suggested U.S. weapons are open to a multitude of countries, China included
- Ahead of Xi’s arrival at the White House last week, a group of Republican leaders led by Kentucky Sen
- President Donald Trump offered to sell weapons to China during President Xi Jinping’s recent summit in Washington, a move foreign policy experts said makes a mockery of U.S. warnings
Summary
News Sunday, David Purdue, the U.S. ambassador to China, suggested U.S. weapons are open to a multitude of countries, China included. “President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world,’” he said. The White House said the U.S. government has no plans to sell weapons to China. The comment baffled foreign policy experts, who argued the suggestion of selling weapons to Beijing would contradict the slew of sanctions and trade restrictions the Trump administration has placed upon the country, as well as dismiss China’s role in supplying munitions and military intelligence to Iran.