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Taiwan Center Stage In Trump-Xi Phone Call, As State Media Touts Island's 'Return To China'
At a moment US-ally Japan is in a rare full-blown diplomatic and (increasingly) military showdown with China, the country's President Xi Jinping held a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Monday, both sides have confirmed. The last time the two leaders met and talked in detail, which was on the sidelines Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in late October, they had declared a "tariff truce" in an effort to de-escalate trade tensions.
But the Taiwan issue is once again taking center stage, at a moment Tokyo has quite provocatively decided to place medium-range missiles on an island which lies less than 70 miles east of Taiwan. The White House has so far into its term been relatively quite on the issue.
Trump, rather than stoking tensions further, appears to be striking a conciliatory position:
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed bilater...
China Could Push Russia To Attack NATO Member In Taiwan Distraction Ploy: Rutte
In the scenario that China might one day invade Taiwan, Beijing will enlist Russia's help to tie up NATO forces in Europe, according to a prediction by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
Rutte, in a fresh interview with The New York Times, engaged in a rare bit of public speculation and grand strategy chessboard gaming regarding potential future moves by the two nuclear armed powers who have struck an "unlimited partnership" of the last few years.
He described that if China made a move against Taiwan, President Xi Jinping "would first make sure that he makes a call to his very junior partner in all of this" - in reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This isn't the first time that Rutte has branded Putin the Chinese president's subordinate in public remarks, in something clearly meant as a jab at Moscow and aimed at belittling the Russian leader.
In such a development, Xi would ...