Last December, the US announced it would ship more than $11.1bn of weapons to the island – its largest package ever.<\/p>\n
“The Taiwan-US relationship is rock solid, and all cooperation projects will continue uninterrupted,” Taiwan President Lai Ching-te told reporters during a visit to textile merchants in western Taiwan.<\/p>\n
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Taiwan is a self-governing island that China claims as its own and is willing to use force to reclaim, prompting fears of a future invasion.<\/a><\/p>\n Beijing even prohibits all countries with which it has diplomatic relations, including the US, from having formal ties with Taipei.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n It means the US does not recognise Taiwan as a nation state – but still remains its biggest backer.<\/p>\n After Mr Trump and Mr Xi’s phone call, the Chinese foreign ministry shared a readout of the conversation.<\/p>\n It said: “President Xi emphasised that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China – US relations. Taiwan is China’s territory.<\/p>\n “China must safeguard\u2002its own sovereignty and territorial integrity, and will never allow Taiwan to be separated.<\/p>\n “The US must handle the issue of arms sales to Taiwan with prudence.”<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: For his own part, Mr Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the successful call – but made no mention of China’s firm words on Taiwan.<\/p>\n He said: “The relationship with China, and my personal relationship with President Xi, is an extremely good one, and we both realise how important it is to keep it that way.”<\/p>\n The $11.1bn arms shipment announced in December is not over the line yet, having still not been approved by Congress.<\/p>\n There has also been significant pushback to the deal from within China, which conducted military drills around Taiwan in response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiwan shares a “rock solid” relationship with the United States, its president has insisted – despite talks between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-450521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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