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The US president, Donald Trump, said Sunday that the other members of the G7 "no" have asked him to stop the trade war with China, although he acknowledged that he has "doubts about everything" what he does.

"No one has told me that," the US president responded to a question about whether the G7 allies have pressed him during this summit to end the tension with the Asian giant , which is slowing global economic growth.

Trump, in a brief statement to the press after a breakfast with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, insisted on his view that what China has done to the United States "is outrageous", to take away "hundreds of billions of dollars every year " through what he considers illegal business practices and intellectual property theft.

Even so, he acknowledged that he has some "doubts" about his decisions about China, since "I have doubts about everything," and he opted to continue the dialogue with Beijing.

Commercial truce

Trump spoke these words after several leaders attending this G7 summit, such as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, or the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, called on Saturday at this Biarritz meeting a truce in the commercial conflict before their negative consequences on the global economy.

Johnson himself said Sunday, sitting in front of Trump, that "in general, we are in favor of commercial peace" and pointed out his opposition, in principle, to the imposition of new tariffs.

On Friday, Trump said in Washington that he could invoke a National Emergency Act of 1977 to increase trade conflict with China and two days later he stressed his opinion that he is justified to do so.

"This is an emergency," Trump insisted, although he indicated that "for now" he has no plans to declare it, because "we are talking very seriously with China" and, in his opinion, "they want to close a (commercial) deal much more than what I want. We'll see what happens. "

Trump also recalled that the US It is "very close" to close a new and extensive trade agreement with Japan , which has been negotiating for the past five years, and stressed that "what is happening with China is helping" in the negotiation with Tokyo.

Nuclear agreement

The G7 countries have entrusted the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to "speak and direct a message to Iran" about the nuclear agreement, at risk of disappearing after the US decision to leave it last year.

The objective of the talks will be "to avoid at all costs that Iran has the nuclear weapon" and "to stop the escalation in the region," a French diplomatic source said.

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