The administration of US President Donald Trump has told Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) “we don’t want any coercion, but we want [the Taiwan dispute] resolved peacefully,” US Ambassador to China David Perdue said yesterday.
Trump “has said very clearly, we are not changing the 'one China' policy, we are going to adhere to the Taiwan Relations Act, the three communiques and the six assurances that were done under [former US president Ronald] Reagan,” Purdue told newscaster Joe Kernen on a segment called Squawk Box on US TV channel CNBC.
The act, the Three Joint Communiques and the “six assurances” are guidelines for Washington in dealing with its unofficial relationship with Taipei under its “one China” policy.
Photo: Screen grab from CNBC Television’s YouTube channel
A face-to-face meeting between Trump and Xi is “unlikely to happen before next year,” Perdue said.
Washington is “still trying” to arrange an in-person meeting between the two heads of state, and had gone “back and forth on the logistics,” he said.
“These are two great leaders who respect each other. They’ve gotten together many times before, they’ve already had three phone calls this year,” Perdue said. “These are two people in unique positions that want to do something great, and I think they want to do it together.”
The US wants to make the relationship, the “most consequential in our time,” less adversarial and “buy some time” to find a way to coexist, he said.
Trump is “the one president that I’ve seen in my lifetime [who] has the ability to hit [Xi] in the face, yet turn around, put an arm around him and really begin to negotiate,” Perdue said, referencing the TikTok deal and an upcoming Boeing aircraft deal.
Meanwhile, the segment noted that Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) last month said that China is “nanoseconds behind” the US in chipmaking and artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
The US “is still in the lead” of the AI innovation race, but must maintain that lead against Chinese manufacturer Huawei Technologies Co by attracting and employing human capital to compete on the world stage, Purdue said.
He said that he hopes China will assist in the Ukraine conflict and stop purchasing crude oil from Russia and Iran to aid in resolving global conflicts.
Purdue was appointed as Ambassador to China in April.
Since then, he said he has spoken face-to-face with Xi about the US' tariff policies and US interests.
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