Trump says Xi told him China will not invade Taiwan while he is in office

<p>US president says Chinese counterpart told him ‘I am very patient and China is very patient’</p><p>The US president, Donald Trump, has said that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, told him China would not invade Taiwan while Trump is in office.</p><p>Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News on Friday, ahead of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/15/trump-putin-alaska-meeting-ukraine">talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin</a>, over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/16/donald-trump-xi-jinping-china-taiwan">Continue reading...</a>