US President Donald Trump has publicly thanked Chinese President Xi Jinping for remaining neutral during the recent US-Iran conflict, revealing that he personally urged Beijing not to get involved. Speaking during the unveiling of the new Air Force One, Trump said Xi respected the request despite China’s heavy reliance on oil shipments passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday thanked China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin for what he called their neutrality during the war with Iran.

According to the US president, everything could have been made "much more difficult", but it was neutral