Trump last month praised his former aide for not entering into an agreement with prosecutors, as the president’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen had.
Tridium and the Tianjin Institute of Software Engineering will work together on an engineering class, build an open innovation laboratory called T-Lab and form an internship base, along with collaborating on teaching and research.
Trump noted on Thursday that the US is negotiating with China. "We're in the midst of a big negotiation. I don't know if anything will come of it. They have been very helpful," said Trump, without offering any details.
Trump is considering candidates to fill the seat vacated by the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week at age 87 due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer. Five women are on his shortlist.
Trump has been resistant to wearing a mask himself and has not put one on in public, though he said he tried some on backstage during a visit to a mask factory in Arizona last week.
Trump made the phone call with Zelensky on July 25, during which he claimed former Vice President Joe Biden once forced Kiev to fire a prosecutor in order to protect his son Hunter Biden, who served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.
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Trump also sparked controversy over his plans to visit a Ford plant in Michigan on Thursday that manufactures medical ventilators. The company had reiterated its policy Tuesday that all visitors to its plants must wear masks.
Trump said on a news conference last Thursday that Pyongyang wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, while DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said they had only demanded a partial easing in exchange for dismantling its main nuclear site at Yongbyon.
Trump is trying to discourage US manufacturers from shifting production overseas due to the tariffs, as Milwaukee-based motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson Inc last month said it would do.
Trump, who has vowed to scrap the nuclear pact, faces a Friday deadline to decide on the sanctions, and a decision to withhold a waiver would effectively end the deal that put limits on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for easing Western sanctions.