China has threatened to cancel a planned summit with US President Donald Trump if Washington goes ahead with a new arms sale to Taiwan, according to a Kyodo News report cited by Firstpost.
President Xi Jinping is due to meet Trump at the White House on 24 September, their third encounter within a year. Beijing has told the Trump administration that Taiwan remains a “red line” and that approving the proposed sale would force it to scrap the meeting, multiple sources familiar with the talks said.
At their Beijing summit on 15 May, Xi warned Trump that mishandling the Taiwan question could push the two countries toward collision or conflict. China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province and has not ruled out the use of force. Neither side has publicly confirmed that the summit threat has been formalised or that the reported arms sale has been frozen.
Firstpost noted that Trump paused a separate $14 billion arms package in May around the time of the Beijing meeting, and framed the latest warning against a wider pattern of US pullbacks in the Indo-Pacific. Analysts say the episode again puts Taiwan at the centre of any deal between Washington and Beijing.
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