TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is “confident” in its relations with the U.S., Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Thursday, ahead of a meeting between the U.S. and Chinese presidents where the issue of the island Beijing claims as its own could come up.

Since taking office this year, U.S. President Donald Trump has vacillated on his position towards Taiwan while pursuing a trade deal with Beijing. Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping has told him he will not invade while the Republican president is in office, but Trump has yet to approve any new U.S. arms sales to Taipei.

The fear in Taipei, which has long enjoyed strong unofficial support from Washington, is that the Trump-Xi meeting on Thursday in South Korea on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit could see so

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