TaipeiTrump asked Xi if he’d like to buy US weapons.
The offer, if real, would upend a 1990 US embargo central to arming Taiwan against China.
Ambassador David Perdue disclosed the remark while defending Trump’s Taiwan arms record days after the two leaders met in Washington.
The State Department says US law bars arms sales to China and there are no such plans.
Trump’s on-hold $14 billion Taiwan arms package remains unresolved as the US-China trade truce runs to 10 January.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 300+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- 朝日新聞デジタル
- maps Taiwan's concern that Xi-Trump WWII narrative (crediting communist forces) could weaken Taipei's US arms-supplier ties
- BBC
- foregrounds AI dialogue as concrete outcome amid scarce breakthroughs; absence of joint statement signals lingering wariness
- NDTV
- reconstructs Trump's arms-offer pitch to Xi (framed as routine sales) and ambassador's preemption of Taiwan-abandonment concerns
- RT leans critical
- emphasizes legal prohibition on China arms sales (1990 embargo) to frame Trump's offer as unprecedented 34-year policy breach