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28 October 2025

Taiwan Is Not for Sale

America Can Make a Good Deal With China Without Abandoning the Island

Marvin Park and David Sacks

MARVIN PARK is Senior Vice President at American Global Strategies. He served as Director for Taiwan Affairs on the National Security Council from 2023 to 2024 and as U.S. Naval Attaché at the American Institute in Taiwan from 2016 to 2019.

DAVID SACKS is Fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.More by Marvin 

When U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the coming weeks and months—likely starting next week at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in South Korea—the immediate focus will be on how to de-escalate the latest round of export restrictions and tariff threats that the United States and China have wielded against each other. But Trump and Xi are also likely to consider a more ambitious deal to reset bilateral relations, which would seek not only to stabilize economic ties but also to reevaluate geopolitical flash points—above all, Taiwan. Indeed, this

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