{"id":158056,"date":"2026-09-28T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158056"},"modified":"2026-09-28T04:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:06:16","slug":"trump-asked-xi-if-beijing-wanted-us-weapons-a-joke-a-gambit-or-something-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158056","title":{"rendered":"Trump asked Xi if Beijing wanted US weapons: a joke, a gambit or something more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostDonald Trump asked President Xi Jinping whether Beijing wanted to buy American weapons, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday, prompting the State Department to quickly rule out any such deal with Washington\u2019s principal strategic competitor.<br \/>\n\u201cHe actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point,\u201d the ambassador David Perdue said on Fox News after Xi\u2019s state visit to the White House last week. He did not say when Trump raised the question, what prompted it, or how the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3368996\/trump-asked-xi-if-beijing-wanted-us-weapons-joke-gambit-or-something-more?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostDonald Trump asked President Xi Jinping whether Beijing wanted to buy American weapons, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday, prompting the State&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}