Trump Advisers Fear China May Attack Taiwan
Advisers say a conflict could come within five years as they warn that Taiwan’s chips supply chain remains vulnerable to any Chinese move.
- Senior advisers to President Donald Trump privately fear the most significant outcome of his recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping is a sharply increased risk that China will move against Taiwan within the next five years.
- During the summit, Xi Jinping asserted that China no longer sees itself as a rising power but as an equal to the United States, declaring "Taiwan is mine" and signaling a shift in Beijing's diplomatic positioning.
- Advisers worry that any future Chinese move on Taiwan would hit the global Chips supply chain before American domestic manufacturing reaches self-sufficiency, threatening major technology firms and the economy.
- Taiwan stated the island remains a sovereign and independent nation, with Lai emphasizing that Taiwan "will not be sacrificed or traded" while thanking the United States for stressing stability across the Strait.
- Xi Jinping warned Trump that mishandling the Taiwan issue could push US-China ties toward "clashes and even conflicts," leaving uncertainty regarding how far Washington would go to defend the island.
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Donald Trump has been flattering Xi Jinping this week. Concerns are now growing that the state visit has increased the risk of an imminent invasion of Taiwan.
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Trump Advisers Fear China May Attack Taiwan
“Some close advisers to President Trump fear the biggest substantive result of the China summit is heightened danger that Chinese President Xi Jinping will invade Taiwan in the next five years, potentially choking off the chips used to power AI to U.S. companies,” Axios reports.
Some of Donald Trump's advisers believe that after a summit with China, the risk of Xi Jinping's invasion of Taiwan could increase over the next five years. Trump liked the welcome from Xi Jinping, but the Chinese leader's words did not correspond to the friendly atmosphere of the meeting, wrote Axios. In particular, one of Trump's advisers said that C was trying to show China in a new status and actually said, "We are not a country that is gain…
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