China’s Xi Presses Trump on Taiwan in Phone Call - The New York Times
Both leaders gave versions of what they discussed, but the Chinese president’s take made clear the issue of the island was front and center.
Mr. Xi told Mr. Trump that the American position on Taiwan was “the most important issue in China-U.S. relations,” it said, and asserted that China “will never allow Taiwan to be separated from China.”
“The U.S. must handle arms sales to Taiwan with extreme caution,” Mr. Xi told Mr. Trump, according to the description in Chinese state media.
“He’s trying to set the table for telling President Trump, ‘When you come in April, be ready to have a serious, sit-down conversation about Taiwan because it’s very important to me,’” Ryan Hass, the director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution.
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