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Friday, May 15, 2026
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Friday, May 15, 2026
Trump says he and Xi agree to keep Iran from having nuclear arms
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President Donald Trump talks with China's President Xi Jinping at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
US President Donald Trump says he discussed Iran with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that they do not want Iran to have nuclear weapons and “want the straits open.”
The two leaders met at the walled-off Zhongnanhai complex in Beijing as Trump wraps up his state visit to China.
“We’ve settled a lot of different problems that other people wouldn’t have been able to solve,” Trump says.
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