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		</div><p>Donald Trump says the US is prepared to act alone against North Korea if China does not take a tougher stand against Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear programme.</p>
<p>The president&#8217;s comments in an interview with the Financial Times came days before he is set to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate in south Florida. The two are expected to discuss a number of issues, including North Korea, trade and territorial disputes in the South China Sea during their meeting on Thursday and Friday.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes, we will talk about North Korea,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And China has great influence over North Korea. And China will either decide to help us with North Korea, or they won&#8217;t. And if they do that will be very good for China, and if they don&#8217;t it won&#8217;t be good for anyone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Trump said trade was the incentive for China to work with him, but he added that the US could &#8220;totally&#8221; handle the situation in North Korea without China&#8217;s help. Asked how he would tackle North Korea, he said: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to tell you. You know, I am not the United States of the past where we tell you where we are going to hit in the Middle East.&#8221;</p>
<p>While China provides diplomatic and economic support to its neighbour, it claims that its influence over Kim Jong Un&#8217;s government is limited. The relationship between the US and China has been uncertain since Mr Trump&#8217;s election. During his campaign he accused Beijing of unfair trade practices and threatened to raise import taxes on Chinese goods and declare China a currency manipulator, although it is unclear whether he will follow through with either threat.</p>
<p>He told the newspaper he does not &#8220;want to talk about tariffs yet, perhaps the next time we meet&#8221;.<br />
Mr Trump&#8217;s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, also offered tough talk on China, saying on ABC&#8217;s This Week that the US is pressing Beijing to take a firmer stand on North Korea&#8217;s nuclear programme.</p>
<p>UN resolutions have failed so far to deter North Korea from conducting nuclear and missile tests.<br />
Last year, the North conducted two nuclear tests and two dozen tests of ballistic missiles.</p>
<p>&#8220;They need to show us how concerned they are,&#8221; Ms Haley said. &#8220;They need to put pressure on North Korea. The only country that can stop North Korea is China, and they know that.&#8221; Asked what the US would do if China did not co-operate, she said: &#8220;China has to co-operate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Former defence secretary Ash Carter said he doubted that Beijing would co-operate.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on the North Korea problem since 1994,&#8221; he said on ABC. &#8220;And we have consistently asked Chinese leaders &#8230; because they uniquely have the historical and the economic relationship with North Korea to make a difference.</p>
<p>&#8220;They haven&#8217;t used that influence, and so it&#8217;s hard for me to be optimistic with that.&#8221;</p>
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