President Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping told him he wouldn’t make a move on Taiwan while Trump is in office. “I said, ‘Well, I appreciate that.’ But he also said, ‘But I am very patient, and China is very patient.

JONATHAN A. CZIN is the Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies and a Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He is a former member of the Senior Analytic Service at the CIA and was Director for China at the National Security Council from 2021 until 2023.

At his office in Taipei, Wu Chih-chung pulls out a small stack of papers titled Xi Jinping’s Gradual Move Toward Personal Dictatorship.

The remarks came ahead of Trump’s planned talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

THIS secretive Chinese special forces unit could play a key role in dictator Xi Jinping’s plot to seize Taiwan. Ever since Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the world has