President Donald TrumpPresident Donald Trump speaks to House Republican lawmakers during their annual policy retreat. (AP Photo)

US President Donald Trump said “it’s up to” Chinese President Xi Jinping what China does in ‍Taiwan, ⁠the New York Times reported on Thursday.

“He (Xi) considers ​it to ‌be a part of China, ​and that’s up to him what he’s going to be doing,” Trump ‌told the newspaper in an interview conducted on Wednesday.”

But ‌I’ve expressed to ‌him that I would ‌be very ‍unhappy ⁠if he ​did that, and I ⁠don’t think he’ll ⁠do that. I hope he doesn’t do ‌that.”

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