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Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Presumably his answer was "We don't need more overpriced crap we can't service ourselves, we already have Apple"

David Perdue told Fox News on Sunday: “President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other people around the world."

I think 3 or 4 presidencies from now Donald will manage to determine from first principles that the US "rules based order" is a protection racket.