WASHINGTON, Sept 25 – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said his first call if elected would be to Chinese President Xi Jinping, and he would demand that Xi honors a previously struck agriculture deal.
The former U.S. president made a deal with China in his first term in tariff negotiations, which he said included an agreement by Xi to buy US$50 billion worth of American agricultural goods.
“My first call – I’m going to call up President Xi. I’m going to say, ‘you have to honor the deal you made,’” Trump said at a roundtable featuring farmers at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.
“We made a deal, you’d buy $50 billion worth of American farm product, and I guarantee you he will buy it, 100% he will buy it,” said Trump, adding that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris – his November election rival – had failed to enforce the deal.
