The second meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping produced no fundamental shift in the strategic competition between Washington and Beijing or in U.S. policy toward Taiwan, experts at a Taiwan forum said.
They argued at the Sept. 29 event that differences between the two powers remain too deep for Taiwan to become a bargaining chip.
The assessment came at an international seminar on the geopolitical and economic implications of the Trump–Xi meeting, hosted by the nonprofit Taiwan Inspirational Association (TIA).
Tan Yao-Nan, chairman of the INP Consulting Group, moderated the discussion. Participants included Chen Fang-Yu, an associate professor of political science at Soochow University; Lai Yi-Chung, a consultant to the TaiwanThinktank; and Lai Jung-Wei, executive director of TIA….