WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he had asked China to delay his summit with Xi Jinping by around a month while he deals with the war in the Middle East. Trump had been due to visit Beijing from March 31 to April 2 to reset ties and extend a U.S.-China trade truce, but the trip has been upended by the Iran conflict. "Because of the war I want to be here, I have to be here, I feel. And so we've requested that we delay it a month or so," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about the China trip. The U.S. leader insisted that he had a "very good relationship" with China and was not trying to play games by postponing the highly anticipated trip to the rival superpower. "There's no tricks to it either, it's not like 'oh gee, I'm waiting.' It's very simple. We got a war going on. I think it's important that I be here," added Trump. Trump had first suggested the summit could be delayed in an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday, in which he said a decision could depend on whether China would help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "We'd like to know before (the