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The 2020 United States presidential election promises to be a gripping one. No reasonable observer would risk a prediction at the moment about who the Democrats will nominate to take on Donald Trump and whether the incumbent president will be elected to a second term in the White House.

President Donald Trump has warned that if no trade deal with China is reached, more duties will be imposed.

"China is going to have to make a deal that I like ... If we don't make a deal with China, I'll just raise the tariffs even higher," he told AFP reporters at the White House.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has revealed what a gift he will give to President Donald Trump during his upcoming visit to the White House on November 25th. The gift for the US President will be produced in Gabrovo and will be unique.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he told US President Donald Trump during talks in Washington last week that Turkey would not give up on the Russian S-400 missile defenses it procured this year, despite protests from its NATO ally.

Burak Bilgehan Ozpek, a professor of international relations at Ankara's TOBB University, said that, like the issue of Syrian refugees and their flow through Turkey to the European Union, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would use the ISIS fighters as leverage for Western acquiescence to his policy on neighbouring Syria.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg thanked US President Donald Trump for his strong leadership and commitment to the Alliance in a meeting at the White House on Thursday (14 November 2019), NATO said in a statement on its website.

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Washington was not right to propose that Ankara get rid of the Russian S-400 missile defenses it purchased, calling it an infringement of sovereign rights, according to Turkish media.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in the White House yesterday, where he was greeted by US President Donald Trump, world agencies and Turkish media reported.

The two leaders made a statement ahead of their bilateral meeting.

BBC reports that Trump had addressed the media in the Oval Cabinet at the press conference in the course of his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The US President has again dismissed the impeachment inquiry as a "witch-hunt" and a "joke".

Senator Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has outlined 10 issues that President Donald Trump should bring up with visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.