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democracy," First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said in a [statement](https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/arcadia-mayor-federally-charged-acting-illegal-agent-peoples-republic-china). "This plea agreement is the latest success in our determination to defend the homeland against China's efforts to corrupt
President Lai Ching-te said he arrived in the African nation of Eswatini on Saturday, days after his government was forced to push back the trip when several countries withdrew permission
President Xi stressed that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations,” the statement published on the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s website says. “If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship
President Xi Jinping, accompanied by a delegation of American CEOs, including the heads of Apple, Nvidia, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs. The meeting between the two leaders came just over six months after they agreed
presidents in October last year on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea. In return for China’s agreement to pause restrictions on rare-earth metal exports, Trump dropped a threat
democracy. What we are seeing is a slow degradation of rights – of freedom of expression and the right to assemble.” Kasonde suggested the move was linked to the forthcoming general election
democracy and sovereignty, days after the self-governing territory was one of the main points of discussion between China and the US. “Taiwan will not provoke or escalate conflict, but it will also not relinquish
democracy](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/12/the-big-questions-hanging-over-the-trump-xi-meeting-in-china), which Beijing claims as a breakaway province, during Thursday and Friday’s talks. But while the US president hailed his “great” meeting with his Chinese counterpart, [Xi Jinping](https://www.theguardian.com/world/xi-jinping),
democracy but, under pressure from Beijing, very few countries recognize it as independent. Beijing has never renounced the use of force to unify Taiwan with the Chinese mainland. The US relationship with Taiwan has long