Donald Trump believes it is up to China to come to the negotiating table on trade, the White House said Tuesday, after the US president accused Beijing of reneging on a major Boeing deal.

“The ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us. We don’t have to make a deal with them,” said a statement from Trump read out by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“There’s no difference between China and any other country except they are much larger,” she told a briefing.

Leavitt’s comments came after Trump said that China had “reneged” on a major deal with US aviation giant Boeing.

This followed a Bloomberg news report that Beijing ordered airlines not to take further deliveries of the company’s jets.