President Donald Trump has claimed that were it not for him, Hong Kong ‘would have been obliterated in 14 minutes’ by Chinese troops. Trump said today that Chinese President Xi Jinping refrained from sending in the military against pro-democracy demonstrators in the semi-autonomous city only because he asked him to. ‘If it weren’t for me, Hong Kong would have been obliterated in 14 minutes,’ Trump said in an interview with Fox News. Xi ‘has a million soldiers standing outside of Hong Kong, are not going only because I asked him: ‘Please don’t do that. You will be making a big mistake. It will have a tremendous negative impact on the trade deal.” US President Donald Trump (pictured yesterday) claimed he urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping not to send troops to Hong Kong to quash the city’s anti-government protests Speaking in an interview with Fox News, Trump said: ‘If it weren’t for me, Hong Kong would have been obliterated in 14 minutes.’ Pictured, a protester is struck in the head as he is being detained by police during a demonstration in Central, Hong Kong, on November 13 Hong Kong has been rocked by anti-government protests for more than five months….