Weapons to Iran: Trump threatens China with 50% tariff, then makes a crude offer
India, April 12 -- US President Donald Trump on Sunday re-deployed his legion of threats against Iran after peace talks in Islamabad failed - and went straight at China too. He was responding to reports that US intelligence has found China to be preparing a shipment of weapons to Iran amid a fragile two-week ceasefire that began last Wednesday.
"I doubt they would do that... but if we catch them doing that, they get a 50% tariff, which is a staggering amount." Trump, who's set to visit China next month, told Fox News.
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He's made that threat to all such countries, but China in particular as he was pointedly responding to a question about a CNN report from Saturday. That report said China is preparing t...
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