Trump confuses with statement about Taiwan – ceasefire with Iran “clinically dead”

Ceasefire ‘clinically does’

Iran, Taiwan, China – Trump confuses with press conference

Trump calls the ceasefire with Iran “clinically dead.” And before the meeting with China’s President Xi, he breaks an important taboo in the US’s Taiwan policy.

US President Donald Trump has described Iran’s response to the US proposal to end the Iran war as “garbage”. The president said on Monday in Washington that he didn’t even finish reading the statement from Tehran because he didn’t want to waste his time on it. The ceasefire with Iran only has “a one percent chance of survival,” Trump added. According to Trump, she is only being kept alive artificially.

The US President continued: “The ceasefire is incredibly weak. I would say it is the weakest of all at the moment.” He compared the situation to a doctor coming in and saying, “Your loved one has about a one percent chance of survival.”

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Trump had already described the Iranian response to the US proposal as “completely unacceptable” over the weekend. Oil prices then rose again. Iran said it had demanded the release of its assets frozen by sanctions and the lifting of the US port blockade.

Before the meeting with Chinese head of state Xi Jinping on Wednesday, Trump also indicated a break with the US’s previous Taiwan policy in the press round.

Trump, when asked by reporters whether the US should continue to supply arms to Taiwan, said: “President Xi would like us not to, and I will talk to him about that.” In 1982, Republican President Ronald Reagan made it a basic principle of US foreign policy in the so-called “six assurances” to Taiwan that discussions with China about arms sales to Taiwan were taboo.

Trump had previously described Xi as a “great guy” with whom he had a “very good relationship.”