President Donald Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping via phone on Monday, a White House official confirmed.
The conversation included discussion of U.S.-Chinese relations, Taiwan, and Ukraine, according to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“President Xi outlined China’s principled position on the Taiwan question. He underscored that Taiwan’s return to China is an integral part of the post-war international order. China and the U.S. fought shoulder to shoulder against fascism and militarism,” the ministry said.
Xinhua, China’s official state-run news agency, reported that Xi said after the call that since he and Trump met in South Korea in late October, ties between the U.S. and China have “generally remained stable and improved.”
On Monday, President Trump also signaled that an end to Russia’s more than three-years-long war in Ukraine is in sight after Secretary of State Marco Rubio led talks in Geneva over the weekend.
“Is it really possible that big progress is being made in Peace Talks between Russia and Ukraine???” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform early Monday. “Don’t believe it until you see it, but something good just may be happening.”
The U.S. and European delegations discussed a 28-point peace plan, backed by the White House, that initially alarmed allies and Kyiv over its concessions to Moscow.
