# Ahead of Xi’s US visit: Will Taiwan be on the menu at the White House banquet?

https://mins.news/en/item/63468

- BBC Chinese, 2026-09-18 00:19 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cq62j7my13l3o/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> The report says China may have indicated that Xi Jinping could cancel a planned summit in Washington if the United States approves a new large-scale arms sale to Taiwan beforehand. It examines how Beijing is turning arms sales from a matter of principle into leverage in Trump’s transactional diplomacy, while Taiwan’s chip industry may still offer some protection.

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