Located roughly 100 miles from China’s coast, Taiwan is a tiny island in the Pacific that looms large in U.S. security interests.

Trump sued CBS in November 2024, alleging 60 Minutes had deceptively edited an interview with Harris. The network initially fought the suit, calling it “meritless,” but in July CBS and its parent company Paramount settled with Trump for $16 million.

President Trump said the issues of Taiwan, Russian oil and Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell chip weren’t raised during his wide-ranging meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping