{"id":76239,"date":"2026-02-05T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/05\/xi-jinping-donald-trump-phone-call-china-us-taiwan-relationship"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:31:37","slug":"be-prudent-about-supplying-arms-to-taiwan-xi-tells-trump-in-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76239","title":{"rendered":"Be \u2018prudent\u2019 about supplying arms to Taiwan, Xi tells Trump in call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese president says ties with Washington \u2018rock solid\u2019, hours after leaders of US and China share first call since November<\/p>\n<p>In their first call since November, Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned US president Donald Trump to be \u201cprudent\u201d about supplying arms to Taiwan, according to a readout of their call provided by China\u2019s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Xi emphasised that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations,\u201d the readout said. \u201cChina must safeguard its own sovereignty and territorial integrity, and will never allow Taiwan to be separated. The US must handle the issue of arms sales to Taiwan with prudence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/05\/xi-jinping-donald-trump-phone-call-china-us-taiwan-relationship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese president says ties with Washington \u2018rock solid\u2019, hours after leaders of US and China share first call since NovemberIn their first call since November, Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned US president Donald Trump to be \u201cprudent\u201d about supplyin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76240,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76239\/revisions\/76240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}