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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says (www.theguardian.com)
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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

Donald Trump offered to sell weapons to China while hosting its leader, Xi Jinping, last week, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday.

David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday: “President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other people around the world. He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point.”

The extraordinary claim came during an interview about US policy on Taiwan, which has been waiting for months for Trump to approve a new arms sales ⁠package worth $14bn, after a record multi-billion dollar deal was unveiled in December last year.

Trump’s level of commitment to protecting Taiwan has previously been questioned. At a meeting with Xi in Beijing in May, ⁠Trump said he was keeping the $14bn Taiwan arms sales package in abeyance, describing it as a “very good negotiating chip” in dealings with China.

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Why would China want to buy obsolete weapons as they have better weapons themselves? From nuclear ballistic missiles, drones, nextgen fighter planes, laser weapons and a space defence system.

Today, the Chinese military has weapons systems so technologically advanced that, in some cases, there are no Western equivalent

https://www.slashgear.com/2031569/china-most-advanced-military-weapons/

Unlike the steam driven US leader of the department of war, China has successfully implemented the electromagnetic catapult on their aircraft carrier.

Xi must have laughed his tits off on his way home.

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