"He needs to tell us what his strategy is in Syria, what he thinks he's going to do in the future - and whatever he decides to do, the President has to come to Congress for authorization".
"We hit them very hard", Trump said. China doesn't consider North Korea a military threat and, more to the point, isn't wishing for the sudden demise of Kim Jong Un's regime because the collapse of North Korea would create chaos on the border with China.
Trump, who has urged China to do more to rein in North Korea, had warned earlier on Twitter that Pyongyang was "looking for trouble" and that the United States would "solve the problem" with or without Beijing's help.
Why does understanding North Korean diplomacy matter? Instead, Beijing reaffirmed its traditional policy of "a denuclearized Korean peninsula" and a desire to increase work with Washington and the worldwide community to further the goals of nuclear nonproliferation, to which the United States agreed.
Trump told Bartiromo that after he'd delivered the news, Xi paused for 10 seconds.
The Chinese are also aware that Trump sometimes bluffs, blunders and later backs down.
Mr Trump claimed he had got on well with the Chinese President.
But he quickly found out that China would not negotiate issues related to sovereignty such as the self-ruled island, and Trump later backed down in a call to Xi Jinping in February.
Trump was 'eating chocolate cake' when U.S. bombed Syria
Now, he announces changes of mind after meeting with world leaders or after hearing of shocking events on television. A senior USA administration on Thursday attributed China's help to the bond Trump and Xi forged at the summit.
"China consistently decides its positions and policies on important worldwide issues based on their own merits", Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters on Thursday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held a telephone conversation with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, and discussed the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Syria.
It was reported Wednesday that the Trump administration won't be designating China as a currency manipulator, a promise he had made on the campaign trail, and a charge he made against China numerous times.
Warmongers hoping US president Donald Trump had completely reversed his former non-interventionist philosophy were no doubt disappointed this week when he announced that he had no plans to invade the sovereign Middle Eastern nation.
That position is at odds with the facts, as China has been spending down its foreign reserves to prop up the value of the yuan since mid-2014.
Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo is a veteran financial reporter who was the first to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and spent years interviewing CEOs on CNBC.
Whether Chinese leverage on other issues, or naming the right price, might make these concerns go away, too, remains to be seen.
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