‘Right now, it’s fine’: Trump brushes off questions about summit talk on Taiwan

Comments follow Xi Jinping’s push for the US to take an explicit stand on the issue

3-MIN READ3-MINCarol Yangin BeijingPublished: 5:43pm, 27 Sep 2026US President Donald Trump has sought to play down exchanges with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Taiwan independence, saying on Saturday that they touched on the subject only briefly.

“We didn’t talk about it too much. Right now, it’s fine. It’s just moving along,” Trump said. “We didn’t spend a lot of time talking about Taiwan. He understands very much how I feel.”