# Xi expected to press Trump to halt arms sales to Taiwan — retained record

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source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:semafor)  published 2026-09-22 22:32 ingested 2026-09-23 02:59

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to press President Donald Trump to halt US arms sales to Taiwan in talks this week, Reuters reported, fueling Taipei’s concerns over a frozen $14 billion deal that Trump has described as “a very good negotiating chip.”
Taiwan has encouraged firms to invest in the US with the view that “building structural interdependence [assures] our national security,” a Taiwanese expert said.
But Trump’s past criticism of the island “betrays a clear preference” to minimize Taiwan in favor of other US-China priorities, a former Obama adviser argued.
In Trump’s “unpredictability on US commitments,” Beijing sees a “rare window of opportunity” to exert more influence on the island, a Taiwanese government minister told The Wall Street Journal.
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