Taiwan’s goal is to “keep the status quo,” deputy foreign minister says ahead of Trump-Xi summit

President Trump heads to Beijing this week for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, where Taiwan is expected to be a key issue. CBS News’ Anna Coren talks to Taiwan’s deputy foreign minister Chen Ming-chi ahead of Trump and Xi’s high-stakes talks. Source link

Trump-Xi summit comes with high stakes for Taiwan, the island democracy China claims

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, in his return to the White House, has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan, an approach that is raising questions ahead of this week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping about whether the U.S. leader could be open to dialing back support for the island democracy that Beijing views as its … Read more

Taiwan to be key issue at Trump’s high-stakes summit with Chinese president Xi Jinping

When President Trump arrives in Beijing aboard Air Force One for a high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping, the top issue on the Chinese leader’s mind won’t be the global impacts from the Iran war and bottlenecked Strait of Hormuz. Instead, Xi will be focused on Taiwan, the tiny island democracy in the western Pacific … Read more

Trump warns China of ‘big problems’ over Iran weapons as Xi summit nears

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump warned China it would face “big problems” if it supplies air defense systems to Tehran as Iran remains locked in a conflict with the United States and Israel.  “If China does that, China is gonna have big problems, OK?” Trump told reporters Saturday. The … Read more

Iran war diverts US military and attention from Asia ahead of Trump’s summit with China’s leader

WASHINGTON — In 2011, President Barack Obama declared it was time for America to leave behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and “pivot” to Asia to counter the rise of China. Fifteen years later, the U.S. finds itself still at war in the Middle East and has pulled military assets from the Asia-Pacific as … Read more

Trump admin to hold global summit on countering Antifa, sources confirm

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration is considering hosting a summit focused on countering Antifa and other left-wing extremist networks, according to sources familiar with the discussions. Planning remains in the early stages. No date has been set, a State Department official told Fox News.  The potential summit comes as … Read more

JD Vance appears at secretive conservative donor summit as 2028 presidential speculation grows

Nashville, Tennessee — A line snaked around the first floor of the posh Four Seasons hotel in Nashville Monday evening as wealthy conservative donors eagerly waited their turns to ride an elevator upstairs to hear a special guest speak: the vice president of the United States.  JD Vance headlined a closed-door gathering for the spring … Read more

US lawmakers say they’ll visit Taiwan before Trump’s summit with China’s Xi

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of four senators has plans to visit Taiwan, Japan and South Korea in the coming days on a trip meant to bolster U.S. alliances seen as important to countering China’s dominance in Asia. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced the … Read more

Melania Trump walks side-by-side with humanoid robot at White House summit

First Lady Melania Trump walked side-by-side with a sleek, black and white faceless figure Wednesday at her education summit at the White House. Despite its appearance, it wasn’t an otherworldly creature. It was a humanoid AI robot, known as Figure 03. In videos from the summit, the robot can be seen mechanically strolling next to … Read more