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Trump not planning to postpone his visit to China — treasury secretary

TASS · · 67 words

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated in a Fox News interview that President Donald Trump does not intend to further postpone his visit to China. The trip, originally set for late March, had been moved to mid-May due to conflict involving Iran.

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5 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“US President Donald Trump doesn’t plan to postpone his visit to China again”
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Multiple independent sources (TASS and other web search results) report that Donald Trump does not plan to postpone his visit to China again.
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web search NEUTRAL — US President Donald Trump doesn’t plan to postpone his visit to China again, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.Trump’s visit to China was initially scheduled for late March but the US leader postp…
https://tass.com/world/2125761
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web search NEUTRAL — Beijing has now ordered Chinese companies not to comply with US sanctions on oil refineries, particularly referring to Washington’s measures against Iran and Russia.And reportedly, China did so demons…
https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/05/03/2280794.html
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web search NEUTRAL — US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is planning to delay a high stakes visit to China later in March by about a month because of the Iran war.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9e0z7v3nxo
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“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said [Trump doesn't plan to postpone his visit to China again]”
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The statement is attributed to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in multiple reports, including TASS and other web search results. Wikipedia confirms Scott Bessent is the Secretary of the Treasury as of 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American businessman and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury. Bessent was a p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump assumed office as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025. The president has the legal authority to nominate members of his cabinet to the United States Senate for con…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_cabinet_of_Donald_Trump
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the…
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“Trump’s visit to China was initially scheduled for late March”
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TASS and Al Jazeera both reference the initial scheduling of the visit for late March (Al Jazeera specifically mentions March 31 to April 2).
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web search NEUTRAL — The Donald J. Trump Foundation was a private foundation established in 1988.[80] From 1987 to 2006, Trump gave his foundation $5.4 million, which had been spent by the end of 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
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web search NEUTRAL — US president Donald Trump says he will meet Chinese president Xi Jinping in China on 14-15 May, after delaying the landmark trip amid the US-Israel war with Iran. This would be the first visit to Chin…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05dpr1m71go
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web search NEUTRAL — Donald Trump will travel to China from March 31 to April 2, the White House has said, in what will be the first official visit to Beijing by a United States president since Trump’s last trip there in …
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/21/trump-to-make-three…
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“the US leader postponed it to mid-May”
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Multiple sources, including TASS and a report stating the meeting would be on 14-15 May, confirm the visit was postponed to mid-May.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — At 79 years old, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, became the oldest person in American history to become president upon his second inauguration in 2025. In July 2024, fi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_health_concerns_about_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The rhetoric of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, is widely recognized for its unique populist, nationalistic, and confrontational style. It has been the subject of exten…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric_of_Donald_Trump
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump has been the target of numerous assassination attempts and death threats during his presidential campaigning and his presidencies of the United States of America. The earliest known attem…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_D…
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“the US leader postponed it to mid-May amid the war against Iran”
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Multiple independent sources (TASS, India Today, and other web results) explicitly state that the postponement to mid-May was due to the war against Iran. Wikipedia entries regarding the 2025-2026 Iran-US conflict provide the broader context for this event.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 8 April 2026, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in the 2026 Iran war, mediated by Pakistan. Iran had rejected the draft proposal for a 45-day two-phased ceasefire framework …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war_ceasefire
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 13 April 2026, the United States imposed a naval blockade on Iran following the failure of the Islamabad Talks to end the 2026 Iran war. The US military said the blockade had begun on Monday, 13 Ap…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_naval_block…
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