China on Friday denied reports it has been illicitly selling oil products to North Korea, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was not happy that Beijing for allowing oil to reach the isolated nation.
Trump said on Twitter on Thursday that China had been “caught” allowing oil into North Korea and that would prevent “a friendly solution” to the crisis over North Korea’s nuclear programme.
“I have been soft on China because the only thing more important to me than trade is war,” Trump said in a separate interview with The New York Times.