US Officials Deny Washington Offered Arms Sale to Beijing

US officials have denied reports of Washington offering to sell arms to Beijing, emphasizing to the Wall Street Journal that American law prohibits such transactions. The newspaper, citing a US official, clarified that President Donald Trump's administration has no plans to sell weapons to China. Another official confirmed to the same newspaper that US laws explicitly forbid supplying arms to Beijing, noting that Washington has not made any such offers to Chinese authorities. This denial follows remarks by US Ambassador to China, David Perdue, who stated on Sunday in an interview with Fox News that President Trump "at some point asked his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, if he was interested in purchasing some American weapons," without elaborating on China's response. President Xi's three-day visit to the United States concluded without significant public breakthroughs on several contentious issues, including Taiwan.