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And that's General Electric also, the engines. So they're buying General Electric. So it's approximately 400, 450 engines and 200 planes, and a promise of up to 750 if they do a good job. We had an amazing time. It was a very historic — oh, look who we have. Hello, David. That was a very historic couple of days, I think.

And now, it's as strong as ever. I went over to where he lives, which is something that rarely happens. It's amazing. People have never seen it before. We had lunch. We have a great understanding. It's a very positive thing to have these two nations getting along, David.

We had a great relationship last time, until COVID came along. I blame them for that. And I said it was Wuhan, and it was. I was right. That was a strain on everybody, COVID. So it affected our relationship at the time, but we always had a great relationship before that and after that.

President Xi and I agree on many things, and we agree very much on trade. We're going to be doing a lot of trading. Our farmers are going to be very happy with the deal we make.

I did. The farmers are going to be very happy. They're going to be buying billions of dollars of soybeans.

We didn't discuss tariffs. They're paying tariffs, substantial tariffs, but we didn't discuss it. Before I came along, it was the opposite. It wasn't brought up.

I did. I talked about fentanyl. As you know, I put a tariff on because of fentanyl and they discussed that. It's a penalty — a lot of money we take in because of that. I'd prefer not taking it in. The fentanyl is down, way down from where it was, and it could be because of the tariff penalty.

President Xi and I talked a lot about Taiwan. He thinks we cannot have anything to do with what they're doing. He's very against what they're doing. We talked about Taiwan. We talked about Iran a lot. And I think we have a very good understanding on both. On Taiwan, he does not want to see a fight for independence because that would be a very strong confrontation, and I heard him out.

I don't think there's a conflict, other than we don't need their strait. I think we'll be fine. He doesn't want to see a war. You have two things — the Iranian situation (we agree almost entirely, other than he's a buyer and we're not), and on Taiwan, he doesn't want to see a movement for independence.

He says, look, we've had it for thousands of years. And then at a certain period of time, it left and we were going to get it back. They had the Korean War. A lot of things happened. We have the whole history. On Taiwan, he feels very strongly. I made no commitment either way. Let's see what happens.

I'll make a determination over the next fairly short period of time. We're going to see. I have to speak to the person that right now — you know who he is — that's running Taiwan.

We discussed Taiwan, the whole thing with the arms' sales. It was in great detail, actually. I'll be making decisions. But the last thing we need right now is a war that's 9,500 miles away. That's the last thing we need. We're doing very well.

1980s is a long way. That's a big, far distance away. I didn't say anything about it. But he brought that up. He talked about that to me, obviously. So what am I going to do, say, I don't want to talk to you about it because I have an agreement that was signed in 1982. We discussed arms sales too.

I don't want to say. There's only one person that knows that. You know who it is, me. That question was asked to me today by President Xi. He asked me if I'd defend them. I said, I don't talk about that.

Yeah, we brought it up — the denuclearization. I talk about it all the time with Russia and with China, and it did come up. We did discuss it.

I got a very positive response since the beginning. We're going to be together four times this year. We have the G-20 — in Miami, in Doral — which he wants to come to, and I'd like him to come to. It'd be much more important if he's there. Then he has one in November in China; he's asked me to be there. And September 26th or 24th, he's coming into the White House.

I don't want to say anybody committed, but we have a very good understanding — the concept of denuclearization. No, denuclearization. And you bring Russia into it also. The concept of that is something that would be very good.

It didn't come up, but as you know, Jensen was there. He's an amazing guy, NVIDIA. He would be inclined — they have much higher level than the H-200, but the H-200 is good. China needs it. So yeah, it came up. But we haven't budged — no, because they chose not to. They want to try and develop their own. But it did come up and I think something could happen on that.

We did. We're leading by a lot, but they're second and they're very strong. We talked about possibly working together for guardrails — the standard guardrails that we talk about all the time. AI is fantastic. So many things can happen in terms of health and medicine and operations, everything, the military. So many things can happen, but it's also got some drawbacks. We probably will. We're going to work together.

Could be, yeah. Could be.

I did. And he talked about attacks that we did in China. What they do, we do too. It's like the spying. They're talking about, oh, the spying. I said, well, we do it too. The question was asked to me yesterday, what about the fact that China's spying in the United States? I said, well, one of those things — because we spy like hell on them, too.

Well, you don't know that. I'd like to see it, but it's very possible that they do, and we're doing things to them. I told them, we do a lot of stuff to you that you don't know about, and you're doing things to us that we probably do know about. But we do plenty. It's a double-edged sword.

I think he's giving very serious consideration to the pastor. He said he's giving very serious consideration to that.

It's a tougher one. I did bring it up, but it's a tough one for him. He told me — I don't want to mislead anybody — he said Jimmy Lai is a tough one for him to do. He went through a lot and right or wrong, they went through a lot. He told me that would be a tough one. He said he's going to strongly consider the pastor.

No. But I think President Biden was an incompetent president. … I don't think about it. He's the ruler, he's the president of China. I don't think about it. You deal with what you have. I respect him. He's very smart. He loves his country. I respect him. Whether he's a dictator, that's for you to figure out.

He made a statement. It might not have been from him. It was somebody, but they talked about the decline. But he said it today, very publicly. He said the US was declining for the last four years and that what President Trump has done in the last 15, 16 months has been virtually a miracle. He said we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. He said it was a declining country under Joe Biden — seriously declining, which we did, with people pouring in from all over the world. He said what President Trump has done has been a virtual miracle. It's the hottest country anywhere in the world. And it is.

On Iran, it's very interesting. He feels strongly they can't have a nuclear weapon. He said that very strongly — they cannot have a nuclear weapon. And he wants them to open up the strait. But as he said, they closed it and then you closed them, with a smile.

I didn't ask him to put pressure, because I don't need favors. I think he will. I think automatically he'd like to see it opened up. He gets about 40 percent of his energy or his oil from that strait. We get none. We get none. We don't need it.

Well, we talked about that and I'm going to make a decision over the next few days. We did talk about that.

They said that they can't remove it because they don't have the technology to remove it. They don't have the type of tractors. They told me directly — the only one that can remove it is China or the US. We're the only ones with the equipment. They said, you were right, it is a complete obliteration.

We have the equipment to take it out, nobody else does. China might have the equipment. They said, you're the only one — they said, you and China.

I did. We discussed — it's one that we'd like to see settled. Until last night, it was looking good, but they took a big hit last night. So it's going to happen, but it's a shame. 25,000 people died last month.

I did. I have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un. It's been pretty quiet. Yes, I have had communications. Doesn't matter what kind. I don't tell you about that. But I have a good relationship with him. He's been respectful of our country. I want him to be respectful.