Trump ‘made ZTE offer to get Xi to help with North Korea summit’
The Washington Post
The White House has been rattled by North Korea’s recent about-face in negotiations over its nuclear weapons programme, with US President Donald Trump calling South Korean President Moon Jae-in for his thoughts on the matter, an insider has revealed.
Fearing that China has poisoned North Korean leader Kim Jong-un against him, Trump also attempted to extend an olive branch to President Xi Jinping by offering to ease sanctions on Chinese telecoms company ZTE, a second source said.
The moves come with just over three weeks to go before Trump is to meet Kim in Singapore on June 12 in a summit that Pyongyang has threatened to pull out of.
Read more at: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2146993/donald-trump-called-south-korean-leader-advice-kim
Quite a different story than that one we were reading about ZTE last week.
