00:00Would you consider lifting the sanctions on Chinese oil companies that buy Iranian oil?
00:04Well, we talked about that, and I'm going to make a decision over the next few days.
00:08We did talk about that.
00:09Do you think Xi felt stronger in his dealings with you than he did the last time that you were
00:16in China?
00:16We had a great relationship last time, until COVID came along.
00:18You know, I blame them for that.
00:20I said it was Wuhan, and I was right.
00:23And, you know, look, that was a strain on everybody, COVID.
00:27And so, you know, it affected our relationship at the time.
00:31But we always had a great relationship before that and after that.
00:35Now it's as strong as ever.
00:37I mean, I went over to where he lives, which is something that rarely happens.
00:41Were you there?
00:42Yeah, it was beautiful.
00:43It was amazing.
00:44People have never seen it before.
00:46It's amazing, actually.
00:47We had lunch.
00:49We have a great understanding.
00:50I mean, it's a very positive thing to have these two nations getting along.
00:55Mr. President, on Taiwan again, you said you were going to check with the president of Taiwan.
01:00But the 1982 assurances that President Reagan gave, said you would not,
01:05so the United States would not consult with China on arms sales to Taiwan.
01:11So it sounds to me like you have consulted with China.
01:14Well, I think 1982 is a long way.
01:16It was.
01:17That's a big, far distance to it.
01:19Did you dispense with that?
01:20No, I didn't say anything about it.
01:21But certainly, you know, he brought that up.
01:24He talked about that.
01:25I mean, obviously.
01:26So what am I going to do?
01:27I don't want to talk to you about it.
01:29Because I have an agreement that was signed in 1982.
01:32No, we discussed arms sales, too.
01:35What's his request?
01:37You discussed the Taiwan, you know, the whole thing with the arms sales.
01:40It was in great detail, actually.
01:43And I'll be making decisions.
01:45What letters would you like?
01:46You know, I think the last thing we need right now is a war that's 9,500 miles away.
01:53I think that's the last thing we need.
01:54We're doing very well.
01:55Would the U.S. defend Taiwan if it came to it?
01:57I don't want to say no.
01:58I'm not going to say that.
02:01There's only one person that knows that.
02:03You know who it is?
02:03Me.
02:04I'm the only person.
02:05That question was asked to me today by President Xi.
02:09I said, I don't talk about that.
02:11He asked you today.
02:13He asked you if you would send troops.
02:15He asked me if I defend them.
02:17I said, I don't talk about that.
02:18She tells him now.
02:19I don't talk about that.
02:20Did you talk to him about the cyber attacks that he's done in the United States or the MSS?
02:25I did.
02:26And he talked about attacks that we did in China.
02:29You know, what they do, we do, too.
02:31It's like the spying.
02:33They're talking about, oh, the spying.
02:34I said, well, we do it, too.
02:36We do it, too.
02:36Look, no, I'm talking about spying.
02:38I think the question was asked to me yesterday, I guess, what about the fact that China is spying in
02:44the United States?
02:45I said, well, it's one of those things, because we spy like hell on them, too.
02:50What about the fact that China is putting in the U.S. infrastructure code that they could use if you
02:56ever decided to come to the United States?
02:58Well, you don't know that.
02:59I mean, I'd like to see it, but it's very possible that they do.
03:03And we're doing things to them.
03:04I told them we do a lot of stuff to you that you don't know about, and you're doing things
03:09to us that we probably do know about.
03:11But we do plenty.
03:12It's a double, it's a double-edged note.
03:14Let's go again on President Xi.
03:16A couple of years ago, when President Biden met him in San Francisco, he was asked if he thought President
03:22Xi was a dictator.
03:23Do you think President Xi is a dictator?
03:25I think that President Biden was an incompetent president.
03:28He gave us the Iran nuclear deal, which allowed Iran to have a nuclear weapon within a matter of years
03:35from the time they said, I terminated it.
03:37If I didn't terminate that, Iran would have a nuclear weapon, then they would have used it within probably two
03:43years ago, three years ago.
03:44If I didn't go in with the B-2 bombers nine months ago, Iran would have a nuclear weapon, and
03:49nobody would be able to talk to him.
03:51By the way, they would have used it already.
03:53Do you think President Xi is a dictator or not?
03:56I don't think about it.
03:58He's the ruler.
03:59He's the president of China.
04:01I don't think about it.
04:03If you deal with what you have, I respect him.
04:07He's very smart.
04:08He loves his country.
04:09I respect him.
04:10Whether he's a dictator, that's for you to figure out.
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