Mike Waltz said Washington maintains its policy of “strategic ambiguity” regarding tensions with China over the island.
US President Donald Trump reaffirmed during his recent talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping that he would not change Washington’s policy toward Taiwan, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz has said.
Beijing has long opposed US arms sales to the self-governing island and any diplomatic recognition of the government in Taipei. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said during Trump’s trip to China on Thursday that “Taiwan independence” and peace in the region were “as irreconcilable as fire and water.”
“At the end of the day, [Trump] made no commitments either way, in line with our longstanding policy of strategic ambiguity,” Waltz told Fox News on Friday. “There is a whole line of thinking that if you basically indicate or tell China that we won’t be there, that it could embolden them as well,” he added.
“I think the president was quite clear that there is going to be a status quo going forward,” Waltz said. He added that there was a large backlog of weapons orders from Taiwan, but that it was up to Trump whether he wanted to cancel them.
The US maintains informal ties with Taiwan, having withdrawn recognition in 1979. Although the People’s Republic of China has stressed that it seeks reunification with the island through peaceful means, it has indicated that it could resort to force if the wayward province formally declares independence.
In an interview with Fox News on Friday, Trump said that “nothing has changed” and that he was “not looking to have somebody go independent.”
“And, you know, we’re supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war. I’m not looking for that. I want them to cool down. I want China to cool down,” he added.
China has said it considers all contacts with the “separatist” government in Taiwan to be hostile acts. In 2022, Beijing condemned then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island and launched snap military drills in response.
Xi specifically started the summit with a warning about avoiding the Thucydides Trap.
But Trump does not read, the reference went straight over his head.
What happens to America from now on under the rule of it’s Mad King and his half-witted satraps will be one of the most rapid declines in the history of empires.
The 20th Century was the American century.
Now the 21st Century belongs to China, Russia, India, and Iran.
…and the dustbin lids!
Hopefully the new world order will outlaw genocide.
Trump really needs to change his status quo on bombing school children https://wanaen.com/us-attempts-to-evade-accountability-for-bombing-schools-in-iran/
Being illegal doesn’t automatically stop crime.
What can the media salvage from failure? Dumb yanks remain blind. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/16/768731/Trump-s-inability-to-see-Iran-s-power-costs-him-everything-in-China
Trump Walked into China and Killed Kissinger’s Thucydides Trap.Trump raised denuclearization directly with Xi and rejected war-driven “geopolitical trigger points,” including on Taiwan, emphasizing avoiding a distant war. The Thucydides Trap concept popularized by Graham Allison is British-influenced “fake history” that obscures imperial manipulation, and Trump is dismantling that paradigm by reviving the American System—tariffs, manufacturing, and energy independence.(Promethean Action)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbBKs_ixmBQ
Only thing he and his little pals have killed is good will all over the world.
It was so FRESH that it was still alive and leaping off his plate. Probably radioactive. So Trump avoided the food https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/05/16/2310405.html
Dumb is as dumb does. Suffice to say, China has observed the US get its exceptional smug arse kicked by Iran and is probably underwhelmed by their veiled threats. All they can do now is crawl away and threaten weaker nations like Cuba. Pathetic bunch.