US President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping has assured him that Beijing would take no military or political action toward unifying Taiwan with mainland China while Trump remains in office.

“He has openly said, and his people have openly said at meetings, ‘We would never do anything while President Trump is president,’ because they know the consequences,” Trump said in an excerpt from his interview aired on CBS.

US concerns over Taiwan tension

Washington has long viewed China’s intentions toward Taiwan — a self-ruled island democracy that Beijing claims as its own — as a potential flashpoint in Asia.

The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act governs US policy toward the island, requiring that the US help Taiwan maintain sufficient defense capabilities but stopping short of a fi

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