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Speaking on the broader energy issue during his press gaggle aboard Air Force One, Trump stated that the US doesn’t have much to do with China’s purchase of Russian oil, noting that “it takes care of a big part of China.”

“There’s not a lot more we can do. The oil he’s [Xi Jinping] been buying from Russia for a long time. It takes care of a big part of China, and I can say India’s been very good on that front, but we didn’t really discuss the oil. We discussed working together to see if we could get that war finished. It doesn’t affect China, it doesn’t affect us but I’d like to see it done,” Trump said during the gaggle following his bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Busan, South Korea.

Trump’s comments mark the late

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