{"id":831,"date":"2026-05-13T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:39:42","slug":"ahead-of-trump-xi-summit-china-warns-on-us-arms-sales-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Trump-Xi summit, China warns on US arms sales to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China reiterated its strong opposition to US arms sales to Taiwan on Wednesday, calling on Washington to honour its commitments ahead of US President Donald Trump&#8217;s arrival for a summit in Beijing. The issue of democratically governed Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, \u200band weapons sales \u200cto Taipei is certain to be discussed during two days of meetings this week between Trump and \u2060Chinese President Xi Jinping. FRANCE 24&#8217;s Yena Lee reports from Beijing, China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China reiterated its strong opposition to US arms sales to Taiwan on Wednesday, calling on Washington to honour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}