STORY: :: Trump says he asked China's Xi Jinping in a letter not to give Iran weapons
:: Fox Business Network's Mornings with Maria
:: Washington, D.C. / April 14, 2026
Trump: "He's somebody I get along with very well. Just wrote me a beautiful letter."
Reporter: "He wrote you a letter?"
Trump: "Yeah, he did. He responded to a letter that I wrote because I had heard that China is giving weapons to... I mean, you're seeing it all over the place to Iran, that China is giving weapons."
Reporter: "Did he say he's giving them?"
Trump: "Yeah and 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, in the interview taped on Tuesday (April 14), did not say when the letters were exchanged. Last week, he threatened countries with an immediate 50% tariff if they supplied Iran with weapons.
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.
