President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. requested that his trip to China be delayed by “a month or so,” citing the war in Iran.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he didn’t know whether he still planned to travel to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of the month as previously scheduled.
“I’d love to, but 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 said.
“It’s very simple. We’ve got a war going on. I think it’s important that I be here, so it could be that we delay a little bit, not much,” he added.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Trump’s comments.
The Trump administration began to cast doubt on the trip earlier in
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