{"id":646783,"date":"2026-05-16T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646783\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:53:12","slug":"taiwan-to-trump-we-are-sovereign-and-independent-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646783\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan to Trump: We are sovereign and independent \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd, you know, we\u2019re supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war. I\u2019m not looking for that,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-warns-taiwan-expect-blank-check-us-military-intense-xi-summit\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-warns-taiwan-expect-blank-check-us-military-intense-xi-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Fox News<\/a>, adding that he wants both sides to \u201ccool down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the U.S. does not officially recognize the self-governing island, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce8p61v7l68o\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce8p61v7l68o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has come under criticism from China<\/a> for selling weapons to Taiwan, which Xi urged Trump not to continue, as China recognizes Taiwan as part of Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<p>Xi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce8p61v7l68o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">called Taiwan<\/a> \u201cthe most important issue in China-U.S. relations,\u201d according to Chinese state media, and that if not handled properly, the two sides may come into conflict. However, Trump pushed back against any escalation of tension, insisting that \u201c[Xi] doesn\u2019t want to see a war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd, you know, we\u2019re supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war. I\u2019m not looking for that,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3995,144,1127,12,10815,3,3998,21,19,22,20,25,24,1139,3439,6132],"class_list":["post-646783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-media","tag-news","tag-taiwan","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-war","tag-weapons","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646783","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=646783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}