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Aboard Air Force One on his return to the United States, President Donald Trump said on Friday (May 15) that he discussed US arms sales to Taiwan with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their bilateral talks in Beijing and said he would soon make a decision on the matter.

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00:00Hello everybody, so we had a great stay, it was an amazing period of time, President Xi is an incredible
00:09guy, got along, made a lot of great trade deals including over 200 planes for Boeing with a promise of
00:16750 planes, which will be by far the largest order ever if they do a good job in the 200,
00:24which I'm sure they will, and that's General Electric also, the engines.
00:28So they're buying General Electric, so it's approximately 400, 450 engines, 200 planes, and a promise of up to 750
00:38if they do a good job.
00:41We had an amazing time with us, a very historic, oh look who we have, hello David, it was a
00:48very historic couple of days I think, a million days.
00:53So, President Xi and I talked a lot about Taiwan, he thinks they cannot have anything to do with what
01:03they're doing, I mean he's against very much what they're doing.
01:07We talked about Taiwan, we talked about Iran a lot, and I think we have a very good understanding of
01:12both.
01:14One Taiwanese does not want to see a fight for independence because that would be a very strong confrontation, and
01:23I heard him out.
01:25Are you really saying you're worried about him?
01:26No, I didn't make a comment on it, I heard him out, I have a lot of respect for him.
01:30Mr. President Xi said there was a risk of conflict with the US over Taiwan.
01:36No, no, I don't think so, I don't think so, I think we're going to be, I think we'll be
01:40fine.
01:41He doesn't want to see, he doesn't want to see a war on Taiwan, he feels very strongly, I made
01:49no commitment either way, we'll see what happens.
01:50What about the arms sales to Taiwan?
01:54I'll make a determination over the next fairly short period.
01:57You're not necessarily going to go ahead, it was your proposal?
01:59I'm going to make a determination, I'm going to say, I have to speak to the person that right now,
02:03you know who he is, that's running Taiwan.
02:06Mr. President Xi ...
02:09Mr. President ...
02:09Mr. President ...
02:14You

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