Washington: US President Donald Trump has offered to have a good trade deal if China helps tackle the threat of North Korea.
"That'd be all right, too. But going it alone means going it with lots of other nations," he cautioned China, if the latter decided not to help him on the issue of North Korea, which has been carrying out provocative missile tests at frequent interval.
North Korea had threatened nuclear war with the US.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Trump said the US has "tremendous trade deficits" with everybody, but the big one is with China.
"They're not currency manipulators," he said.
"Mr Trump said the reason he has changed his mind on one of his signature campaign promises is that China hasn't been manipulating its currency for months and because taking the step now could jeopardise his talks with Beijing on confronting the threat of North Korea," the report said.
In the interview, Trump insisted that the US will not allow North Korea to go nuclear. "You cannot allow a country like that (North Korea) to have nuclear power, nuclear weapons. That's mass destruction. And he doesn't have the delivery systems yet, but he you know he will," he said.
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