China will have “big problems” if it sells weapons to Iran, US President Donald Trump said, quoted by CNN.
In response to a question from the network about US intelligence reports on possible Chinese arms sales to Tehran, Trump threatened that Beijing would face consequences if it did.
“If China does this, China will have big problems”, he said on the way to Florida.
The White House did not specify whether he had spoken with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, whom he is expected to meet early next month in China, the network reported.
According to CNN, US intelligence is concluded that China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran in the next few weeks.
Trump also said he was not concerned about the outcome of the talks with Iran in Pakistan. He said Washington had already “won“.
“It doesn't matter to me whether we make a deal or not. We won“, he said. The American leader added that NATO countries had failed to help the United States.
In addition, Trump assured that the United States would open the Strait of Hormuz, “even though we ourselves don't use it“. "Because there are many other countries in the world that use it, but they are either afraid, or weak, or stingy," he said.
China has never supplied weapons to any of the parties to the conflict, Liu Pengyu, press secretary of the Chinese embassy in the US, told TASS, commenting on the CNN article.
Direct talks between the US and Iranian delegations ended in failure in Islamabad tonight.