Asked about his relationship with China's President Xi Jinping, Trump described a recent conversation they shared as "good" and "friendly", APA reports citing BBC.
He said the two leaders had a "very good relationship" prior to Covid.
"They are a very ambitious country, he is an ambitious man... He was like my friend, we had a very good relationship," Trump said.
Still, he justified his decision to slap tariffs on Beijing as "China gets a lot of its money from America and they use that money to build up their military".
"We have one very big power over China, and that's tariffs," he said.
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