{"id":72093,"date":"2025-08-16T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72093\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T06:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:38:07","slug":"trump-says-xi-told-him-china-will-not-invade-taiwan-while-he-is-in-office-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72093\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Xi told him China will not invade Taiwan while he is in office | Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US president, Donald Trump<\/a>, has said that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, told him China would not invade Taiwan while Trump is in office.<\/p>\n

Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News on Friday, ahead of talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin<\/a>, over Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will tell you, you know, you have a very similar thing with President Xi of China and Taiwan<\/a>, but I don\u2019t believe there\u2019s any way it\u2019s going to happen as long as I\u2019m here. We\u2019ll see,\u201d Trump said during an interview on Fox News\u2019 Special Report.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me, \u2018I will never do it as long as you\u2019re president\u2019. President Xi told me that and I said, \u2018Well, I appreciate that\u2019, but he also said, \u2018But I am very patient and China<\/a> is very patient\u2019,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

The Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Trump and Xi held their first confirmed call of Trump\u2019s second presidential term<\/a> in June. Trump also said in April that Xi had called him but did not specify when that call took place.<\/p>\n

China views Taiwan as its own territory and has vowed to \u201creunify\u201d with the democratic and separately governed island, by force if necessary. Taiwan strongly objects to China\u2019s sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n

Although Washington is Taiwan\u2019s main arms supplier and international backer, the US \u2013 like most countries \u2013 has no formal diplomatic ties with the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US president, Donald Trump, has said that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, told him China would not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-72093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}