{"id":44654,"date":"2026-09-28T22:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/28\/trump-refutes-claims-of-arms-deal-proposal-to-xi-jinping\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T22:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:25:35","slug":"trump-refutes-claims-of-arms-deal-proposal-to-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/28\/trump-refutes-claims-of-arms-deal-proposal-to-xi-jinping\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Refutes Claims of Arms Deal Proposal to Xi Jinping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON: On Monday, former President Donald Trump refuted claims that he asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he was interested in purchasing American weapons. This statement came after the U.S. ambassador to China, David Purdue, mentioned that such an offer was made.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When reporters in the Oval Office pressed Trump about Purdue&#8217;s comments, he responded, \u201cI\u2019ve never heard of that one.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Trump acknowledged the superiority of American military equipment but insisted that the two leaders did not discuss any potential arms sales, stating, \u201cThey\u2019d probably like to buy it because we do make better equipment than them, so maybe it\u2019s a good idea. But we didn\u2019t discuss it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This exchange highlights the ongoing complexities in U.S.-China relations as both nations navigate sensitive topics regarding trade and military capabilities.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: On Monday, former President Donald Trump refuted claims that he asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he was interested in purchasing American weapons. This statement came after the U.S. ambassador to China, David Purdue, mentioned that such an offer was made. When reporters in the Oval Office pressed Trump about Purdue&#8217;s comments, he responded,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[58850,58849,300,6599,1116],"class_list":["post-44654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-news","tag-american-weapons","tag-david-purdue","tag-donald-trump","tag-us-president-donald-trump","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}