'I wrote him a letter....': Donald Trump says he asked Xi Jinping not to give Iran weapons and the latter agreed

The US President also said he ⁠did ⁠not expect shifts in the global oil market over the war on Iran and changes in Venezuela to impact the dynamics of his planned ​meeting with Xi next ​month.

Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping in ⁠a letter not to give ⁠Iran weapons, and Xi ‌responded that China ​was not supplying Tehran, the US president told Fox Business Network in an interview that aired ​on Wednesday.

Trump, ⁠in the interview taped on Tuesday, did not say when the letters were exchanged. ⁠Last ‌week, he threatened countries with an immediate 50% tariff ‌if they supplied Iran with ⁠weapons.

"I wrote him a letter asking him not ‌to do that, ‌and he wrote me a letter ‌saying that, essentially, ‌he's not doing that," Trump told FBN's "Mornings with Maria" program.

He also said he ⁠did ⁠not expect shifts in the global oil market over the war on Iran and changes in Venezuela to impact the dynamics of his planned ​meeting with Xi next ​month. "He's somebody that ​needs oil. We don't," Trump sa