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The United States Ambassador to China, David Perdue, reaffirmed that the US has not changed its longstanding Taiwan policy amid ongoing discussions about arms sales. A group of US lawmakers is urging the Trump administration to expedite arms sales, following uncertainty over a $14 billion arms package approval after the Trump-Xi summit.
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00:00The U.S. ambassador to China says President Donald Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping that U.S. policy on
00:06Taiwan remains unchanged.
00:09President Trump made it very clear. He made it very clear to Xi Jinping in my presence that we're not
00:13changing the American policy on Taiwan.
00:16We fully support the Taiwan Relations Act, the three communiques, the six assurances.
00:21We don't support independence, but we also don't want to see coercion across the strait.
00:26We want a peaceful solution to the same.
00:29Ambassador produced exclusive interview with CNBC comes after Trump as Xi for talks in Beijing.
00:35Trump said after the summit that he had not decided whether to approve a 14 billion U.S. dollar arms
00:41package for Taiwan.
00:42A group of U.S. lawmakers that support Taiwan are now urging the Trump administration to speed up the arms
00:48sales.
00:48They joined Taipei in pushing the Trump administration for clarity, saying that the U.S. is bound by law to
00:54provide arms to Taiwan.
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