How Trump and Xi Can Pull Back From the Brink
Stephen Wertheim
Tourists walking past a wall painted with a Taiwan flag, Kinmen, Taiwan, October 2025Ann Wang / ReutersSTEPHEN WERTHEIM is a Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, and the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.More by Stephen Wertheim
When U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet on Thursday, they should take bold action to reduce the risk of war over Taiwan. That risk has reached alarming heights in recent years. China, the most dangerous party, has militarized the strait, launching large military drills simulating blockades of the island and daily incursions across the median line. Taiwan, under President Lai Ching-te, has asserted its sovereignty in new and destabilizing ways, casting its political system as separate from and threatened by the mainland’s. And the United States has been increasingly one-sided in backing Taiwan, chipping
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