00:00Hello, everybody. So we had a great stay. It was an amazing period of time.
00:08President Xi is an incredible guy. He got along and made a lot of great trade deals, including over 200
00:15planes for Boeing,
00:16with a promise of 750 planes, which will be by far the largest order ever if they do a good
00:23job with the 200, which I'm sure they will.
00:25And that's General Electric also, the engines. So they're buying General Electric.
00:30So it's approximately 400, 450 engines and 200 planes and a promise of up to 750 if they do a
00:39good job.
00:42We had an amazing time. It was a very historic. Oh, look who we have. Hello, David.
00:48It was a very historic couple of days, I think. A million days.
00:54Sir, I know there will be a lot of questions around the China trip, which is first on Iran.
00:58Have you rejected the latest proposal from Iran, or where does that stand?
01:02Well, I looked at it, and if I don't like the first sentence, I just throw it away.
01:08What was the first sentence?
01:10An unacceptable sentence.
01:12Yes.
01:13Because they're fully agreed. No nuclear, and if they have any nuclear of any form, I don't read the rest
01:18of them.
01:19So 20 years is not enough for you? It's got to be a perfect...
01:21No, 20 years is enough. But the level of guarantee from them, in other words, it's got to be a
01:29real 20 years, not a...
01:31It means you've got to get all the fuel out, and no more production.
01:35No, you have to get everything, but we're not even talking about...
01:38I caught the nuclear dust. I came up with a terrible seems to have gone on.
01:42They're talking about because they would not remove the...
01:45Yeah, they said that they can't remove it because they don't have the technology to remove it.
01:49They don't have the type of tractors. They say the only one...
01:52They told me directly. They said the only one that can remove it is China or the US.
01:57We're the only ones with the equipment. They said you were right. It is a complete alliteration.
02:02With that being said, I want to get it. And they agreed to it, but then they took it back,
02:08but they'll agree to it eventually.
02:10Can I ask you about Taiwan? What did President Xi say to you about Taiwan?
02:15What did President Xi say to you about Taiwan? And are you still going to approve the arms sale?
02:22So, President Xi and I talked a lot about Taiwan. He thinks they cannot have anything to do with what
02:32they're doing.
02:33I mean, he's against very much what they're doing. We talked about Taiwan. We talked about Iran and I.
02:39And I think we have a very good understanding of both.
02:43Taiwan. Taiwan does not want to see a fight for independence because that would be a very strong confrontation. And
02:52I heard him out.
02:54You really think you're worried about it? No, I didn't make a comment on it. I heard him out. I
02:58have a lot of respect for him.
02:59He said, on Iran, it's very interesting. He feels strongly they can't have a nuclear weapon. He said that very
03:05strongly. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. And he wants them to open up the strait.
03:10But as he said, they closed it and then you close them with a smile. And it's true. We control
03:18the strait. And they've done no business. Literally, they've done no business in the last two and a half weeks,
03:24which is approximately $500 million a day.
03:29So, we have, we're doing very well on all fronts.
03:34So, on Taiwan, Mr. President, President Xi said that there was a risk of conflict with the U.S. over
03:41Taiwan. What's your response to that?
03:43I don't think there's a conflict, other than we don't need their strait. We don't need the arm of us.
03:49So, on Taiwan, Mr. President Xi said there was a risk of conflict with the U.S. over Taiwan.
03:56I don't think so. I don't think so. I think we're going to be, I think we'll be fine. He
04:00doesn't want to see, he doesn't want to see a war.
04:05And you have two things. You have the Iranian situation with that. I think we, we, almost entirely other than
04:11he's a buyer. And we're not. We don't need it.
04:14And on Taiwan, he doesn't want to see a movement for independence. He says, look, you know, we've had it
04:20for thousands of years.
04:21And then, at a certain period of time, it left that we were going to get it back. They had
04:25the Korean War. A lot of things happened. And all this.
04:29But, no, on Taiwan, he feels very strongly. I made no commitment either way.
04:36So, what about the arms sales to Taiwan?
04:39I'll make a determination over the next fairly short period.
04:42But you're not necessarily going to go ahead. It was your proposal.
04:45I'm going to make a determination. I'm going to say, I have to speak to the person that right now,
04:49as you know, you know who he is, that's running Taiwan.
05:04It was the president.
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