France, Nov. 11 -- US President Donald Trump attacked France in a televised interview in which he evoked "problems" with the country, and accused it of unfairly taxing American products. The barb came during a discussion on foreign students where he appeared to shift his position on allowing foreign students attend universities in the United States.

In an interview with US broadcaster Fox News, a discussion between Trump and presenter Laura Ingraham about foreign students coming to the United States turned into a harsh critique of France.

When Ingraham questioned him on the enrolment of Chinese students at US universities, saying, "they're not the French, they're the Chinese. They spy on us. They steal our intellectual property," Trump ...