President Trump said in a Sunday interview that Chinese officials \u201cknow the consequences\u201d of taking military action against Taiwan while he\u2019s in office.<\/p>\n
In an interview on CBS News\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d<\/a> correspondent Norah O\u2019Donnell asked the president whether he would defend Taiwan if China moved on the island. Trump avoided making any direct threats but said he was confident that would not happen.<\/p>\n \u201cYou’ll find out if it happens, and he understands the answer to that,\u201d Trump responded in the interview.<\/p>\n Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Thursday for the first time in six years<\/a>. The leaders touted key agreements struck between the countries against the backdrop of economic tensions spurred by trade and Trump’s announcement that America would resume nuclear testing.<\/a><\/p>\n Trump said in the interview, which was taped Friday, that the two leaders did not discuss Taiwan during their historic meeting last week.<\/p>\n \u201cThis never even came up yesterday as a subject. He never brought it up,\u201d Trump said. \u201cPeople were a little surprised at that. He never brought it up because he understands it, and he understands it very well.\u201d<\/p>\n O\u2019Donnell pressed Trump on why he wouldn\u2019t say publicly what he insisted Xi understands \u201cvery well\u201d about the consequences of hypothetical military action against Taiwan.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to give away, I can’t give away my secrets. I don\u2019t want to be one of these guys that tells you exactly what’s going to happen if something happens. The other side knows, but I’m not somebody that tells you everything because you’re asking me a question,\u201d Trump responded.<\/p>\n \u201cBut they understand what’s going to happen,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cAnd he has openly said, and his people have openly said at meetings, \u2018We would never do anything while President Trump is president,\u2019 because they know the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Trump said in a Sunday interview that Chinese officials \u201cknow the consequences\u201d of taking military action against ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}