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Taiwan Is Becoming the Hard Limit of the Trump-Xi Bargain
Beijing wants Washington to revisit the logic of the 1982 arms-sales communiqué while the United States treats Taiwan's defence as both a security commitment and negotiating leverage. That makes the island qualitatively different from the summit's trade disputes.
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