
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said "it’s up to" Chinese President Xi Jinping what China does in Taiwan, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
"He (Xi) considers it to be a part of China, and that’s up to him what he’s going to be doing," Trump told the newspaper in an interview conducted on Wednesday.
"But I’ve expressed to him that I would be very unhappy if he did that, and I don’t think he’ll do that. I hope he doesn’t do that."