Taiwan's MAC Identifies Two Benchmarks to Watch at September 24 Trump-Xi Summit
Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council Deputy Minister Shen Yu-chung stated on September 18 that Taipei will monitor whether the Trump administration reaffirms an unchanged U.S. Taiwan policy and its commitment to first-island-chain deterrence during the September 24 summit. Neither the White House, Chinese Foreign Ministry, nor Taiwanese government sources have confirmed Taiwan as a formal agenda item for the meeting. The established U.S. policy framework — the Taiwan Relations Act, the Six Assurances, and the three communiqués — provides the baseline against which any summit language will be measured.