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Miles Archer

(24,409 posts)
Thu May 14, 2026, 04:51 PM May 14

YAY! Rapin' Nappin' Golfin' Bombin' Grampy got a PINKY SWEAR from Xi to not provide military equipment from Iran! USA!

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-china-visit-xi-meeting-hnk?post-id=cmp5rwrte00003b66d2rq5ka2

2 hr 56 min ago

Trump says Xi pledged not to provide Iran with military equipment
Alejandra Jaramillo
By Alejandra Jaramillo
President Donald Trump said Thursday that Xi Jinping vowed during Beijing talks to not provide military equipment to Iran.

“He said he’s not going to give them military equipment. That’s a big statement. He said that today,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview clip, adding that Xi “said that strongly.”

However, Trump said Xi also emphasized China’s economic ties to Iran, particularly oil purchases. China buys “a lot of their oil” from Iran, Trump said, adding that Xi told him, “they’d like to keep doing that.”

Trump reiterated that Xi said he would like to see the Strait of Hormuz reopened, recounting the conversation: “He joked, he said, ‘you know, they stopped it, then you stopped them.’” The Chinese leader expressed frustration over reports that Iran was charging tolls for passage through the strait, Trump added.

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YAY! Rapin' Nappin' Golfin' Bombin' Grampy got a PINKY SWEAR from Xi to not provide military equipment from Iran! USA! (Original Post) Miles Archer May 14 OP
Xi will send to another country and in turn................... Lovie777 May 14 #1
Does this include unsold inventories of items suitable for military use? taxi May 14 #2
Unless Xi says it, Trump, the dotard, is telling lies newdeal2 May 14 #3

taxi

(2,759 posts)
2. Does this include unsold inventories of items suitable for military use?
Thu May 14, 2026, 06:23 PM
May 14

Things like aircraft without weapons packages or components of systems that require assembly, like a made in the USA golden phone, aren't really military equipment. Plus not giving someone something is very different from not allowing that someone to buy it. A pinky swear indeed.

newdeal2

(5,632 posts)
3. Unless Xi says it, Trump, the dotard, is telling lies
Thu May 14, 2026, 06:35 PM
May 14

I expect to hear a statement from China saying they said no such thing.

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