Trump Tells Fox News He Believes Xi Won’t Act on Taiwan

Residential buildings in Taipei.

Photographer: Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg

Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping told him he would not “move on” Taiwan as long as the US president remained in office.

Trump, speaking in a Fox News interview on his way to a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a ceasefire more than three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, argued that world leaders — including Xi — would never attempt such an undertaking while he was president.