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US President Donald Trump pleaded with China's President, Xi Jinping for help to win re-election in 2020. This was revealed by the US president's former national security advisor, John Bolton writes in an explosive new behind-the-scenes book, according to excerpts published Wednesday (17/6). As quoted by AFP.com ( 18/6) in a blistering critique which the White House has sued to block, Bolton alleges that Trump's focus on winning a second term was the driving principle of his foreign policy and that top aides routinely disparaged the Republican leader for his ignorance of basic geopolitical facts. In excerpts published by The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Bolton also claims President Trump repeatedly showed a readiness to overlook Chinese rights abuses -most strikingly telling President Xi Jinping the mass internment of Uighur Muslims was "exactly the right thing to do//AFP