{"id":579363,"date":"2026-05-12T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579363\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:04:09","slug":"trumps-visit-to-china-could-set-relations-for-many-years-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/579363\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s visit to China could set relations for many years to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Trump administration has been sending mixed signals when it comes to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last December, the US announced an $11bn (\u00a38bn) arms deal with Taiwan, infuriating the Chinese government in the process. Trump, however, has downplayed the US willingness to defend Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He considers it to be a part of China,&#8221; Trump said of Xi, &#8220;and that&#8217;s up to him, what he&#8217;s going to be doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also said Taiwan does not adequately reimburse the US for its security guarantees, adding that it &#8220;doesn&#8217;t give us anything&#8221;. Last year, he imposed a 15% tariff on Taiwan and accused it of stealing semiconductor manufacturing from the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week, Rubio said that Taiwan will be a topic of conversation during the visit, although the goal will be ensuring that the issue does not become a source of new tension between the two superpowers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t need any destabilising events to occur with regards to Taiwan or anywhere in the Indo-Pacific,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think that&#8217;s to the mutual benefit of both the United States and the Chinese.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has been sending mixed signals when it comes to Taiwan. Last December, the US announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-579363","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}