Taiwan urges Trump to stay the course on weapons sales

Lai’s post follows President Donald Trump’s comments on Air Force One and in a Fox News interview Friday that he’s delaying approval of a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan as a “negotiating chip” with Beijing. “I haven’t approved it yet. We’re going to see what happens. I may do it, I may not do it,” Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier. Trump spoke following a two-day summit with China’s leader Xi Jinping in Beijing that otherwise produced few substantive outcomes. Ending weapon sales to Taipei has been a longtime demand of Beijing, which claims the island as Chinese territory…