Taiwan's MOFA Rejects Xi's Taiwan Remarks to Trump as 'Distortion of Facts'; Trump-Xi Summit Ends With No Public Word on Arms Package

Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 25, 2026 rejected Chinese President Xi Jinping's Taiwan remarks made during his three-day Washington state visit, after Xinhua reported Xi told President Trump that Beijing's position on 'safeguarding national unification and territorial integrity' was clear and that he hoped Washington would 'oppose Taiwan independence' and 'prudently handle the Taiwan question.' MOFA said the ROC and PRC 'are not subordinate to each other,' that 'Taiwan's sovereignty belongs to its people,' and accused Beijing of its 'usual tactic of distorting facts,' adding that Taiwan's future can only be decided by its own people through democratic means. Trump and Xi both declined to answer reporters' questions on whether Taiwan had come up in their closed-door meeting, and the White House had issued no official readout by Friday evening. The summit's clearest concrete outcome was a two-month extension of the US-China trade truce; the paused $14 billion Taiwan arms package remained unresolved, with a senior US administration official saying Trump would decide on a new package 'in a fairly short time.'