Politicians said the call between the two leaders, which focused on trade, had ‘made us very anxious’ about the implications for the island
While Trump posted on social media that his 90-minute conversation with Xi “focused almost entirely on TRADE”, Xinhua quoted him as saying the US “will honour the one-China policy”.
“Mainland China’s usual practice is they only make a phone call when a certain consensus can be reached,” Cheng Chao-hsin, the deputy mayor of Taichung city told local media.
“This makes us very anxious about Taiwan’s trade negotiations, as we now find that both Japan and the mainland are ahead of us.”
