Trump leaves China without breakthroughs on Iran, Taiwan or AI [View all]
Source: The Guardian
The US president had gone into the two-day talks with China’s Xi Jinping weakened by his prolonged war in Iran, and did little to change the perception that he and his nation are diminished on the global stage.
Instead it was Xi who delivered the sharpest rhetoric of the meeting – over the future status of the self-governing island of Taiwan, with Trump notably failing to push back.
Xi sees unifying Taiwan with China as a core part of his legacy and has not ruled out the use of force to achieve that goal. At the top of Beijing’s wishlist regarding Taiwan is for the US to stop supplying the island with defensive weaponry.
Trump said on Air Force One he had not determined whether to move forward on a major arms package for Taiwan that is planned for this year.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/trump-china-visit-iran-agreement-xi-jinping-elusive
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