Trump administration officials said the U.S. has no plans to sell weapons to Beijing after Ambassador David Perdue told an interviewer that the president “at one point” offered to make a deal to transfer American arms to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. 

During a Sunday discussion about weapons sales to Taiwan, the ambassador to China told Fox News that “President Trump continues to say: hey, we sell arms to other people around the world” then added “he actually asked President Xi would he like to buy some at one point.” 

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