Trump lämnar Kina efter två dagars samtal med Xi | NTD NYHETER

In today's top news, President Trump is now on his way home after a two-day visit to China. While the two sides reach some consensus on Iran and trade, China's track record of empty promises highlights the uncertainty for actual action. Joining us now live is NTD's White House correspondent Iris Tao. Good morning, Iris. Tell us more about the president's trip. Good morning to both of you as well. So now President Trump is on his way back to Washington, D.C. after a two-day whirlwind visit to China, during which he and Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping talked about a variety of topics, including trade and Iran. So while in China, President Trump, on True Social, said that the military decimation of Iran is to be continued. He also said that Xi did tell him that China would not provide military equipment to Iran and is considering buying oil from the U.S. That said, the president, in an interview with Fox, says that Xi Jinping told him that China would still want to continue buying a lot of oil from Iran. You've spoken about it, and that is China's support of Iran. How big a discussion was that today? We discussed it. I mean, when you say support, they're not fighting a war with us or anything. No. He said he's not going to give military equipment. That's a big statement. He said that today. That's a big statement. He said that strongly. But at the same time, he said, you know, they buy a lot of their oil there, and they'd like to keep doing that. Meanwhile, we know that China has been propping up the Iranian regime for years, and even President Trump noted that China gets about 40 percent of its oil from Iran. And also, while China and the U.S. did agree, according to the White House readout, that the Strait of Hormuz should not be militarized, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, saying in an interview that it remains to be seen if China's actions would actually back up their words given China's recent movements of vetoing resolutions at the U.N. aimed at reopening the Key Waterway. On trade, President Trump hails trade deals saying that China has agreed to buy not only oil but also soybeans and Boeing jets from the U.S. And the trade representative, Jameson Greer, saying that he's expecting China to buy billions of dollars of U.S. agricultural products. That said, though, China still does have a track record of violating trade agreements, as highlighted by the Trump administration itself over the years, including during Trump's first term of not fulfilling its promised agreements to buy U.S. products, as well as during the second term, for example, not fulfilling its request by the U.S. to really try to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. That was another topic, as well, brought up by the president. Meanwhile, the president this time also said that he brought up strongly the issue of spying by the Chinese government. He's talked about China, this and that, that they steal this and they steal that. Now, with that being said, I spoke to him very strongly about that and I'd like to see it taken care of. But they've been doing that for 50 years. Of course, we know that China has been trying to infiltrate the American society by not only doing explicit spying, but also trying to get into America's academics, as well as a movie industry, but also, of course, a lobbying industry as well in D.C. And just a note on how cautious the reporters, as well as the American officials, have to be while on the ground in China. According to a poll reporter following the president on the trip, at the end of the trip, when they were about to depart Beijing, they took everything that the Chinese officials handed out, including pins for delegation, burner phones from the White House staff, as well as all press credentials given by the Chinese and collected them before they got on Air Force One, threw them all in a bin when they were about to even board the plane. According to a poll reporter, nothing from China is allowed on the plane back to the U.S. Back to you. Iris, U.S. reporters on the ground also revealing that there were some verbal and physical conflicts between the U.S. delegation and Chinese officials there. Tell us more about that. Sure. According to accounts by American reporters on the ground, the Chinese officials, as well as security personnel, really made life quite difficult for not only the American press, but also the U.S. officials accompanying reporters. For example, there was an incident during the first day of visit when the Chinese security refused to let a secret service agent, who was part of the president's security details, to bring a firearm onto a secure location. Of course, that sparking quite some conflicts verbally and even physically between the two groups. And also the American press corps was also being held at a location that quite delayed their schedule to really follow the president. And here is a clip from the Reuters live stream that really showed part of that heated conflict. And that was just a small part of really what unfolded over the past few days. In another separate incident on Thursday, a U.S. official, a White House staffer, was actually trampled by Chinese press that were trying to storm into one room where meetings were happening. So the aid was reportedly bruised and shaken, and calls were called loudly to protest the behaviors by the Chinese. And on another note, press credentials or even visas to go into China were actually denied for staffers of both the Epoch Times as well as NTD, likely given our track record of providing a very comprehensive and uncensored look into China's human rights abuses. So another clear example of how differently the U.S. and China treats its press corps, but also is showing how China still really holds a tight control and try to censor the press freedoms for not only reporters at home, but also American reporters who are on the ground there with President Trump. Back to you. Thanks for that update. NTD's White House correspondent, Iris Tao.