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Trump says Xi is 'all business'

In an interview broadcast late on Thursday in the US, Donald Trump said he had a very "very good relationship" with China's President Xi Jinping.

"We have a very good relationship, a friendship really," Trump said in an interview conducted in China by Fox News host Sean Hannity.

"I think he’s a warm person, actually," Trump added. "But he’s all business. There’s no games. There's no talking about how the weather is."

China's role in smoothing Iran conflict still unclear

Earlier on Thursday, Trump said that Xi told him China wants to help negotiate an end to the war and a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

However, there was no mention of whether China would continue to purchase Iranian oil.

China buys some 90% of Iran's oil exports, "providing tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue that supports Iran’s government budget and military activities," according to the US government's US-China Economic and…