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The White House says the US President Donald Trump will make a decision soon regarding arms sales to Taiwan. Trump had said that he needed to think about US weapons sales to Taiwan after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing earlier in May.
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00:00The White House says President Donald Trump will make a decision on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan soon.
00:06The White House was responding to a reporter from Taiwan's central news agency.
00:11The U.S. is Taiwan's biggest weapons supplier, as Taipei deals with threats from neighboring China,
00:17which claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has not ruled out taking it by force.
00:21The fate of future arms sales has been up in the air since U.S. President Donald Trump's meeting
00:26with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing earlier this month.
00:30The U.S. has a longstanding policy of not consulting China on arms sales to Taiwan.
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