00:00Here in Taiwan, many people have been concerned about how Taiwan issues could play a part in the two leaders' discussions.
00:06Our reporter Chris Gorin has been following the reactions here in Taipei, and he joins us now live from our newsroom.
00:12Chris, what are people here saying?
00:17Well, the Trump-she meeting has just concluded, and so the reactions are only now starting to emerge.
00:23But mere hours ago, lawmakers were grilling Taiwan officials about whether Taiwan might be used as a bargaining chip in the Trump-she talks,
00:33with Trump perhaps being willing to change the U.S. stance on Taiwan, for example, explicitly opposing Taiwan independence
00:41in exchange for Chinese concessions on the economy or on trade.
00:46We now know that Trump says that Taiwan never came up in the talks.
00:50But Trump had raised some eyebrows here in Taiwan when he made a somewhat ambiguous comment
00:57to reporters ahead of the talks, where he simply said, Taiwan is Taiwan.
01:03Now, some may have interpreted that as being dismissive, but today in the legislature,
01:07Taiwan's foreign minister, Lin Jialong, had a more positive take on it.
01:11So you can see the foreign minister trying to reassure the public there.
01:38So what about from Taiwan's opposition parties? Has there been any response from them?
01:48Yes, Eric Zhu, the chair of the KMT, Taiwan's main opposition party,
01:53did make some comments as the Trump-she meeting was ongoing.
01:57He said that he hoped the talks would lower tensions between China and the United States,
02:02and that the meeting would contribute to cross-straight peace.
02:05And he added that the most important thing is that cross-straight dialogues and exchanges
02:11restart, and that Taiwan should not depend too heavily on the United States.
02:17Now, many more reactions are likely to pour in as the day goes on,
02:21and we'll be monitoring them closely. Eric?
02:25All right, thanks for that update, Chris.
02:27That was Chris Gorin reporting from our Taipei newsroom.
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