At the same time,

U-S Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stressed Washington's policy on Taiwan
has not changed following the summit between U-S President Donald Trump and
China's President Xi Jinping.

Rubio reiterated that it would be a terrible mistake for China to pursue what
it calls "reunification" by force or through any coercive means, and "there
would be repercussions for that globally, not just for the United States."

Rubio said Beijing raised the Taiwan issue, as it has in the past, and the
U-S responded by by saying "anything that would compel or force a change in
what we have now would be problematic, and U-S "policies on that have not
changed."

Rubio added that Xi's requesting that Trump stop selling weapons to Taiwan
had been discussed in the past, but it "did not feature prominently in
Thursday's discussion."

And the U-S Secretary of State went to say that U-S arms sales to Taiwan are
decisions "the president gets to make," and that the U-S Congress also plays
a role in the process.