# Former White House official discusses Trump-Xi summit, Taiwan arms sales and US-China space arms race

https://mins.news/en/video/60452

- VOA Chinese, 2026-09-16 04:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0L5UzQ8mmI

> Dennis Wilder, a former director for China affairs at the White House National Security Council, analyzes military tensions ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, including public exchanges over space weapons and signals from the Xiangshan Forum. He says both sides have secret spacecraft platforms that could deploy space weapons and expects Xi Jinping to again tell Donald Trump that the $14 billion Taiwan arms sale should not proceed.

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