President Donald Trump on Monday, March 16, said he has requested to delay his planned meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing by about a month.
“We’ve requested that we delay it a month or so,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday. “I’m looking forward to being with him.”
“We’re speaking to China. I’d love to, but because of the war, I want to be here. I have to be here, I feel,” Trump said. “We have a very good relationship. But because of the war, there’s no tricks to it either. … It’s very simple. We’ve got a war going on. I think it’s important that I be here.”...