New Delhi, May 15 -- US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) said that Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed not to provide military equipment to Iran.

Trump, who is in China for a bilateral summit with Xi Jinping, told Fox News in an interview clip, "He said he's not going to give them military equipment. That's a big statement. He said that today," and added that Xi "said that strongly."

However, the US President also noted that his Chinese counterpart stressed Beijing's economic ties to Iran, particularly oil purchases. China buys "a lot of their oil" from Iran, Trump said, adding that Xi told him, "they'd like to keep doing that."

Trump made these remarks while on a two-day visit to China for a meeting with his counterp...