{"id":77344,"date":"2026-05-15T01:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/14\/taiwan-trump-silence-xi-meeting-best-outcome"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:24:05","slug":"for-anxious-taiwan-trumps-silence-after-xi-talks-is-best-possible-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77344","title":{"rendered":"For anxious Taiwan, Trump\u2019s silence after Xi talks is best possible outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Island breathes sigh of relief as fears recede that US could jettison longstanding support<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/14\/donald-trump-china-xi-jinping-live-updates-talks-meeting-summit-visit-beijing-latest-news\">Trump China visit live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before this week\u2019s summit between the Chinese and US presidents, Taiwan had been cast as the anxious bystander.<\/p>\n<p>Observers suggested that Taipei feared the unpredictable and transactional Donald Trump might <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/12\/the-big-questions-hanging-over-the-trump-xi-meeting-in-china\">overturn Washington\u2019s longstanding support for the island democracy<\/a>, which Beijing claims as a breakaway province, during Thursday and Friday\u2019s talks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/14\/taiwan-trump-silence-xi-meeting-best-outcome\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island breathes sigh of relief as fears recede that US could jettison longstanding supportTrump China visit live \u2013 latest updatesBefore this week\u2019s summit between the Chinese and US presidents, Taiwan had been cast as the anxious bystander.Observers su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5241,"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":[50,74,554,45,47,631,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-taiwan","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77344","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\/5241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77353,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77344\/revisions\/77353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}