“There’s a congressional act in place which says that, you know, America is not allowed to discuss its arms sales to Taiwan with Beijing.”
Xi Jingping has delivered an “effective veto” of Trump’s arms deal to Taiwan, although the US president shouldn’t even be discussing it with the Chinese president, says The Times’s China correspondent Richard Spencer.
Richard Spencer was speaking to John Pienaar on Times Radio Drive. Listen live every Monday-Thursday from 4-7pm.
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