WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping told him he would not “move on” Taiwan as long as the U.S. president remained in office.

Trump, speaking in a Fox News interview on his way to a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss a ceasefire more than three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, argued that world leaders — including Xi — would never attempt such an undertaking while he was president.

“I don’t believe there’s any way it’s going to happen as long as I’m here,” Trump said. “He’ll never do it as long as you’re president, President Xi told me that.”

The U.S. has long sought to deter Beijing from any military action seeking to unify the self-governing island of Taiwan with China by force.

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