“I know China very well, President Xi is a friend of mine, I know him very well…The first thing they’re going to do is say you are not allowed to play ice hockey anymore. That’s not good. Canada’s not going to like that,” the president added.
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As a Canadian I have only once had the experience of someone talking about playing field hockey. Going on 30 something years.
Hockey is ice hockey, I might be surprised about which league you were talking about.
Trump isn’t Canadian though?