WEST PALM BEACH, FL: U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, has provided assurances that Beijing will not pursue its long-stated goal of unifying Taiwan with the mainland while Trump is in office.

The assertion was made during an excerpt of an interview with the CBS program “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday.

“He has openly said, and his people have openly said at meetings, ‘We would never do anything while President Trump is president,’ because they know the consequences,” President Trump stated.

The remarks come just days after the two leaders met in South Korea, a meeting that, according to the U.S. President, focused primarily on U.S.-China trade tensions, and did not specifically include a discussion on the contentious issue of Taiwan

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