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WASHINGTON - Donald Trump and Xi Jinping discuss Taiwan arms sales every time they get together but the American stance on the self-ruled island remains unchanged following the Chinese leader’s state visit to Washington last week, the US president’s top envoy to Beijing said.
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“We don’t support independence, and we don’t support coercion,” US Ambassador to China David Perdue told Fox News Sunday in response to a question about Taiwan.
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Perdue → support → Taiwan
Xi heaped pressure on Trump to limit support for Taiwan, which Beijing sees as its own territory, during his trip.
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The Chinese leader pressed the US to outright “oppose” Taiwan independence, marking his first public call for the US to change its decades-old position on the island.
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Asked whether the US is denying what Taiwan needs to defend itself to appease Xi, Perdue said that was “absolutely not the case”.
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The Trump administration has already approved US$11 billion (S$14 billion) in sales of US arms to Taiwan and there are continuing conversations about other sales, he said.
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“He actually asked President Xi would he like to buy some at one point,” Perdue said.
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With Xi heading towards an expected fourth term in office, Beijing has renewed diplomatic pressure to isolate the democratic chip hub.
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China has vowed to bring Taiwan under its control by force if necessary.
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On Sept 26, Trump said he didn’t spend a lot of time talking about Taiwan with Xi, and that the Chinese leader “understands very much” how he feels about the issue.
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The US’ official position is that it doesn’t support Taiwanese independence and opposes any unilateral changes to the status quo by Beijing or Taipei.
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The US president delayed a planned US$14 billion arms package for Taiwan for months.
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After his last meeting with Xi in Beijing, Trump described that deal as “a very good negotiating chip”.
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Taiwan’s role as a key chip supplier to meet artificial intelligence demands means the island has a “symbiotic relationship” with the US, which is “why it should be protected”, Alexander Yui, Taiwan’s representative to the US, said on Sept 27 on CBS’s Face the Nation.
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“The United States has been our main supplier of selling weapons to Taiwan,” he said.
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“We hope that we can get that weapons in as soon as possible.”
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