WASHINGTON šC U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would intervene with the U.S. Justice Department in the case against a Chinese telecommunications executive if it would help secure a trade deal with Beijing.
¡°If I think it¡¯s good for the country, if I think it¡¯s good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made ¡ª which is a very important thing ¡ª what¡¯s good for national security ¡ª I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary,¡± Trump said in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters in the Oval Office.
Trump expressed optimism that he could strike a trade deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping as the two countries struggle to resolve a dispute that has contributed to recent U.S. stock market declines and raised questions about whether economic turmoil could beset the president in the new year.
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