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President Trump takes his cards to Beijing: Will he end up empowering Xi Jinping to invade Taiwan?

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US President Donald Trump was welcomed earlier today in Beijing with an unusually elaborate and theatrical state reception as he arrived in China for high-level talks with President Xi Jinping. Trump was greeted on a red carpet by Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng, a military honour guard, a military band and hundreds of Chinese youths waving American and Chinese flags.

The ceremony also included performers and children dressed in traditional Chinese attire, adding to the highly choreographed display as Trump walked across the red carpet upon exiting Air Force One. Rarely has China ever conducted this type of welcome to a US President before.

The meeting was originally intended to discuss tariffs, but the agenda has now expanded to include Iran, security and also Taiwan. The US President is joined with State Secretary Marco Rubio and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Elon Musk and Apple’s Tim Cook. President Trump has praised Xi Jinping prior to his meeting and also said that he intends to advocate for the release of Jimmy Lai.

Everything indicates that Donald Trump and Xi Jinping want to strike a deal with each other, but the looming question remains what the US is going to do about Taiwan and whether it will provide sufficient deterrence to prevent China from taking military action. The priority for the US President appears to be establishing a good relationship with Xi Jinping, and this could potentially include reducing support for Taiwan.

The United States is Taiwan’s largest weapons supplier and has long provided military support under the Taiwan Relations Act. Many American politicians strongly support Taiwan’s democracy and advocate closer diplomatic and military ties with Taipei. However, the official US position has remained based on the “One China” policy, under which Washington formally recognises the government in Beijing as the sole legal government of China while maintaining unofficial relations with Taiwan.

China plans to invade Taiwan and has been increasingly escalating its grey-zone tactics against it. China is also conducting imperialist aggression against Philippines and is occupying its maritime borders.

US President Trump is meant to meet with Xi Jinping later today.

 

 

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