Xi pressed Trump during the visit to change the US wording on Taiwan, with China's readout saying he wants Washington to "oppose" independence rather than merely "not support" it. Taipei called that a distortion and said only Taiwan's people can decide their future. Trump played down the exchanges: "We didn't talk about it too much. Right now it's, you know, fine. It's just moving along." Taiwan's representative to the US urged faster weapons deliveries, calling the island's chip industry an important part of its security ties with Washington.
The summit produced a two month extension of the trade truce, a $30 billion reciprocal tariff reduction, a communication channel for AI incidents and the loan of two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta, with no breakthroughs on thorny issues such as Taiwan. The Institute for the Study of War said China could view the increased cooperation between the two countries as an opportunity to influence US policy on Taiwan.