Takeaways From Trump's Trip to China, From Trade to Taiwan
Trump said the summit produced few concrete deals as Beijing warned over Taiwan and both sides agreed only to keep trade talks going.
- President Donald Trump returned to Washington on Friday after a three-day visit to China, signaling he may reconsider a planned $14 billion arms sale to Taipei following Chinese President Xi Jinping's objections.
- Beijing warned that mishandling relations with Taiwan, a self-governing island it claims as territory, could result in open conflict. Trump noted of policy toward the island: "The last thing we need right now is a war that."
- Lawmakers approved a $14 billion arms sale in January, but it cannot advance until Trump formally notifies Congress. Boeing confirmed its first major sale to China in nearly a decade, though few other concrete trade deals emerged.
- Trump claimed Xi agreed to help negotiate an endgame to the Iran conflict and assured him China would not provide Iran with military equipment and would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- Both nations agreed to a new vision for "a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability," which the Chinese Foreign Ministry stated will shape ties for at least three years.
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BEIJING — U.S. President Donald Trump seemed very pleased with all that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed during his two-day trip. But how much they actually agreed to is unclear. During a Friday briefing with reporters on Air Force One en route back to the U.S. from Beijing, Trump revealed few substantive agreements while suggesting that at Xi’s behest he was rethinking a key element of U.S. relations with Taiwan. Trump provided no det…
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