US President Donald Trump said he had asked China to delay his summit with President Xi Jinping by around a month while he deals with the war in the Middle East.
Trump had been due to visit Beijing from March 31 to April 2 to reset ties and extend a US-China trade truce, but the trip has been upended by the Iran conflict.
“Because of the war I want to be here, I have to be here, I feel. And so we’ve requested that we delay it a month or so,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about the China trip.
China, meanwhile, said on Tuesday it had “noted” clarifications from the United States about the reasons for Trump’s possible delay to a planned visit to Beijing. (AFP)
