Washington (US)

United States President Donald Trump has said Chinese President Xi Jinping denied sending weapons to Iran.

Trump said in the Fox News interview that Xi Jinping issued the denial in a written response letter to Trump, after the US president wrote him following reports that surfaced about China supplying Iran with weapons for the war.

“I wrote him a letter asking him not to do that. And he wrote me a letter saying that, essentially, he's not doing that,” Trump said.

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Trump is scheduled to meet Xi in Beijing in early May.