The Republic of China has agreed to purchase 200 Boeing jets in a multibillion-dollar deal just a year after the country ordered its airlines to not take any further Boeing jet deliveries, President Donald Trump revealed.
Trump made the announcement during a Thursday appearance on Fox News’s Hannity, after he led a group of CEOs, including Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg, Tesla’s Elon Musk, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, to meet with President Xi Jinping this week:
“One thing [Xi] agreed to today is he’s going to order 200 jets,” Trump told host Sean Hannity. “That’s a big thing — Boeing. 200 big ones. That’s a lot of jobs, that’s a lot. Boeing wanted 150, he got 200.”
“I think it was a commitment, sort of […] a statement,” the president added of Xi’s order. “But I think it was a commitment.”
During last year’s trade standoff with China, the Asian power ordered
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