Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated that Beijing has already “clearly” expressed its position on Iran, but did not confirm whether the Chinese president had conveyed those messages to Washington. “As for the details mentioned, I have no information,” he told reporters.
In an interview with Fox, Trump stated that he had sent a letter to Xi asking him not to provide military support to Iran in the context of the war that began on February 28, and that he had received a response stating that this was not happening.
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“I wrote him a letter asking him not to do that. And he he wrote me a letter saying that, essentially, he’s not doing that,” the U.S. president stated, at a time when several U.S. media outlets have been reporting on alleged Chinese support for Tehran.
Before traveling to China, where he is scheduled to make an official visit in May, Trump reiterated that, unlike China, the United States does not depend on oil, without clarifying how the war in Iran and the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz might affect the planned summit in Beijing.
