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U.S. Trade Representative: Trump considers the interactive impact of U.S.-China factors on arms sales to Taiwan | International | Central News Agency CNA
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Please agree to our privacy policy to enable news listening. (Central News Agency reporter Liao Hanyuan, New York, 17th) U.S. Trade Representative Greer said on the Sunday Political Commentary program today that President Trump is considering how to promote arms sales to Taiwan. The reality is that the stability of U.S.-China relations is very important. He emphasized that the U.S. trade deficit with China decreased by 30% last year, the U.S. maintained tariffs on China and China opened the U.S. agricultural market, and these interacted with each other. George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC’s Sunday political commentary program “This Week,” asked guest Jamieson Greer how Trump uses arms sales to Taiwan as a bargaining chip. What to expect in return? Greer said that everyone remembers that the United States has sold arms to Taiwan for many years, and there have been many times during which there were no arms sales. Former President Obama (Barack Obama) and former President George W. Bush (George W. Bush) both suspended arms sales. Trump is considering how to advance this matter. The reality is that the stability of U.S.-China relations is very important. He said that the United States and China are two important economies. China has long raised the issue of arms sales to Taiwan, and Trump is considering how to deal with it. The background is that the United States reduced its trade deficit with China by 30% last year, maintained tariffs on China to control imports, and China opened its market for American agricultural products. These interact with each other. But Trump made decisions based on national security, based on the needs of U.S. national security. Stephanopoulo asked, what does Trump want to gain in return if he suspends arms sales to Taiwan? Greer said that the most important thing is that the status quo across the Taiwan Strait has not changed, and Trump has made it clear that the U.S. policy toward Taiwan has not changed. We hope that the situation will be stable, and if Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to change the status quo, it will be obvious that we will take it into consideration. Greer emphasized that Trump is very concerned about ensuring that nothing happens in the Taiwan Strait. This is the reason why he said in a media interview that he has not made any commitment to Xi on Taiwan. Trump will decide on his own arms sales and timing to Taiwan. (Editor: He Hongru) 1150518 supports the Central News Agency’s choice to stand with the facts. Every donation you make is a small amount of support to protect press freedom. Download the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” APP to get the latest news in real time. The text, pictures and audio and video of this website may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.



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Under Trump, Chinese Firms Have Abandoned Billions in US Clean Energy Projects
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Remember U.S. infrastructure? Something maybe about how bridges across America have been cracking and sometimes collapsing—or how our energy grid is an antiquated mess? Perhaps something about how the Biden administration passed a $891 billion spending package largely devoted to modernizing all the crumbling hardware undergirding the U.S. economy, making it safer, fortified against extreme weather, and less of a contributor of greenhouse gases? Well, sorry to say, the party’s over. In a sign of just how hostile the Trump administration has been toward its predecessor’s investment in a more sustainable and green economy, Chinese firms have scuttled an estimated $2.8 billion in planned U.S. energy projects over the past year. According to new research by analysts with the Rhodium Group, more than half of China’s proposed plans for clean-energy tech projects across the United States since 2022 have been either paused, delayed, or outright abandoned. “The policy environment is getting more restrictive,” as one former senior counselor to the Biden era’s Department of Commerce, Margaret Jackson, told Bloomberg.

Jackson, now a senior associate at the nonprofit Center for Strategic and International Studies, suspects that this inhospitable climate for green tech investing is unlikely to change even in the not uncommon scenario where Trump’s whims pivot in response to flattery.

“I’m not sure that below him there’s a lot of appetite to create space for more Chinese investment,” Jackson said. Not quite a solar-powered sunset Rhodium’s analysts reported that all three of the world’s leading regions for clean tech manufacturing, China, the U.S., and Europe, have pulled back on their commitments over the course of Trump’s first year back in office—but China’s behavior was unique. State intervention had once catapulted China’s domestic clean energy, battery, and electric vehicle manufacturing sectors five-fold from $37 billion in 2018 to a very sizable $189 billion in 2023, creating major market dominance in some areas (like solar) but also an overcapacity problem.

Nevertheless, even with a lower investment total and a flight from U.S. soil, China’s future plans for solar manufacturing infrastructure remain impressively monumental. Rhodium estimates that the nation has about 485 gigawatts of solar cell production capacity currently under construction domestically—or enough to power about 425 million additional Chinese homes a year—plus another 1.3 terawatts (1300 gigawatts) of solar capacity announced but not yet put in motion. If all goes as planned, China will literally still be doubling its solar power output, according to Rhodium. “The new policy focus on solar manufacturing and the EV supply chain is likely to emphasize maintaining China’s leading position and closing remaining technological gaps and overseas dependencies,” as the group’s report, published Wednesday, concluded. China’s U.S. solar sell-off The economic data reflects some more stark anecdotal news documenting how China-based firms have pulled up their solar stakes in communities across America. This month, for example, Chinese solar manufacturing giant JinkoSolar sold off 75.1% of its ownership stake in its U.S. subsidiary to a private equity firm, which will now run JinkoSolar’s 2-gigawatt (GW) solar panel production facility in Jacksonville, Florida.

China’s Trina Solar similarly pawned off a majority stake in its solar manufacturing facility to an American firm, T1 Energy, shortly after Trump won the White House in 2024. And Beijing-headquartered JA Solar also sold its own 2GW solar assembly plant in Arizona to Corning last July. Much of this skittishness ties directly to legal headaches from the Trump administration’s new Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) restrictions, introduced last year in that “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which places limits on the amount of Chinese ownership permitted for U.S. energy projects.

While industry analysts told Reuters that most Chinese manufacturers are clearly keeping low-level financial toeholds in their U.S. factories, the clear consequence is more price hikes and less clean energy across America for the foreseeable future as FEOC restrictions slow plans down. As Aaron Halimi, CEO of the San Francisco-based utility developer Renewable Properties, explained it to Reuters, “This is undoubtedly going to continue to increase the cost of power in the United States.”



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Trump and Xi Jinping Zhongnanhai tea said they reached a great trade agreement | International | Central News Agency CNA
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2026/5/15 12:45 (updated at 5/15 13:06) Please agree to our privacy policy to enable the news listening function. Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd from left) accompanied US President Trump (right) on a stroll in the Zhongnanhai Garden on the west side of the Forbidden City in Beijing on the 15th. (Associated Press) (Central News Agency, Beijing, 15th, comprehensive foreign news reports) U.S. President Trump said today that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reached a “great trade deal,” but did not provide details. The two began the last day of talks. Agence France-Presse reported that Xi Jinping accompanied Trump on a stroll in the Zhongnanhai Garden on the west side of the Forbidden City in Beijing today. Trump said: “We have reached some great trade deals that are beneficial to both countries.” Trump’s visit to Beijing this time seeks to reach agreements in areas such as agriculture, aviation, and artificial intelligence (AI). He also hopes to ease differences between the two sides in a number of tense geostrategic areas, especially the war in the Middle East. Trump has described Xi Jinping as a “great leader” and a “friend,” but the other party’s response so far has been relatively low-key. However, Trump said that he “gained a lot” from the trip. The Associated Press reported that Trump and Xi Jinping strolled in Zhongnanhai Garden for about 10 minutes. As he walked, Trump exclaimed, “This is the most beautiful rose the world has ever seen.” Xi Jinping said he would give Trump rose seeds. Trump and Xi Jinping had tea and lunch together and are expected to leave China and return to the United States in the afternoon. (Compiled by: Lu Yingzi) 1150515 Support the Central News Agency’s choice to stand with the facts. Every donation you make is a small amount of sponsorship to protect press freedom. Download the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” APP to get the latest news in real time. The text, pictures and audio and video of this website may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.



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