{"id":392,"date":"2026-04-15T17:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=392"},"modified":"2026-05-17T03:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:26:46","slug":"trump-claims-china-agreed-not-to-send-arms-to-iran-xi-jinping-to-welcome-him-warmly-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/trump-claims-china-agreed-not-to-send-arms-to-iran-xi-jinping-to-welcome-him-warmly-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Claims China Agreed Not to Send Arms to Iran\u2014Xi Jinping to Welcome Him Warmly in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump also claimed on Wednesday that Xi is \u201cvery happy\u201d with his efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz, a day after officials in China condemned his embargo as \u201cdangerous and irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cChina is very pleased that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. I\u2019m doing it for them \u2014 and for the world,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cThis situation will never happen again. They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/116408554531050811\/embed\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"truthsocial-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0;\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe class=\"truthsocial-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/116408554531050811\/embed\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cPresident Xi will give me a big hug when I get there in a few weeks,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> he added. <em><strong>\u201cWe are working smart and very well! Isn\u2019t that better than fighting??? BUT REMEMBER, we are VERY good at fighting, if necessary \u2014 much better than anyone else!!!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump and Xi are expected to meet in Beijing on May 14-15.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting had been postponed due to the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>China, specifically, receives about 45\u201350% of its crude oil imports through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The president revealed on his <em>Fox News Business<\/em> show <em>Mornings with Maria<\/em> that Xi sent him a letter regarding the issue of not sending weapons.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cLook, there has never been anyone tougher on China than me. But I also have a good relationship with President Xi, and that\u2019s a good thing,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US President Trump claimed China agreed to halt arms shipments to Iran amid tensions and predicted a warm reception from Xi Jinping during their upcoming Beijing meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[210,196,96,279,277,280,278,333],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-operation-in-iran","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-usa","tag-xi-jinping","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}