{"id":585618,"date":"2026-04-15T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585618\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:50:11","slug":"developing-trump-dismisses-concern-iran-war-will-derail-china-trip-next-month-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/585618\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing | Trump dismisses concern Iran war will derail China trip next month: interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has dismissed concerns that the ongoing <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">war on Iran<\/a> and its effect on global oil supplies will derail his coming visit to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that aired on Wednesday, Trump said he did not think the war would change the dynamic of his coming visit to China.<\/p>\n<p>He was asked about whether the impact on the oil price from recent US actions in Iran and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-venezuela-conflict?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Venezuela<\/a> and Trump\u2019s comments on Cuba would affect his Beijing visit.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201c[Xi is] somebody that needs oil. We don\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-16lwkd e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776253811_955_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">Iranians dismiss Trump threats to block Hormuz Strait<\/p>\n<p>Iranians dismiss Trump threats to block Hormuz Strait<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump said he had exchanged letters with Xi, asking that China not give weapons to Iran. \u201cHe wrote a letter saying that essentially he\u2019s not doing that,\u201d the US president said of Xi\u2019s response. Trump did not elaborate on when the letter exchange took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has dismissed concerns that the ongoing war on Iran and its effect on global&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[550,4,450,144,136874,12,28786,256319,451,801,126633,3,452,453,6046],"class_list":{"0":"post-585618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinese-president-xi-jinping","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-fox-business","15":"tag-guo-jiakun","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-maria-bartiromo","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-us-president"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}