Chinese children were practicing their greeting for President Trump Thursday morning local time at the Great Hall of the People, where President Xi Jinping will formally welcome his US counterpart. Some youngsters were waving small American and Chinese flags and jovially waved to The Post as they lined up.
notably quieter at the leaders’ next stop , the 15th century Temple of Heaven. He ignored shouted questions and the body language of both men was noticeably stiffer.
“President Xi stressed to President Trump that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning wrote on X soon after the meeting broke up. “If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy.
Xi raises prospect of a future US-China war in meeting with Trump: ‘Thucydides trap’“‘Taiwan independence’ and cross-Strait peace are as irreconcilable as fire and water,” Mao went on.
“Safeguarding peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is the biggest common denominator between China and the US. ”The official Chinese readout, published in state media, was even less ambiguous: ““If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy.
”The White House did not release their own readout of the bilateral meeting for several hours — and that statement made no mention of Taiwan. Communications director Steven Cheung refused to talk about the topic when reporters for The Post and other outlets saw him at the state banquet, instead directing them to the official White House statement.
In an interview with NBC News set to air Thursday evening, US time, Secretary of State Marco Rubio shed some light on the matter.
“US policy on the issue of Taiwan is unchanged as of today and as of the meeting that we had here today,” he said. “It was raised. They always raise it on their side. We always make clear our position and we move on to the other topics.
”Settled by Chiang Kai-shek’s defeated Nationalists following the Chinese Civil War, Taiwan has been a thorn in the side of the People’s Republic of China for almost eight decades. Since the late-1970s, the US “One China” policy acknowledges Beijing’s claim to the island and avoids directly advocating for Taiwanese sovereigntyWhile Xi has repeatedly vowed to reunify China and Taiwan — by force if necessary — Rubio told NBC Beijing would be making “a terrible mistake to force that, through force or anything of that nature.
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