$14 billion of the Taiwan arms sale approved by Congress in January has been blocked, Bill Gertz reported, calling it a "huge loss for U.S. arms makers." The report followed comments from US Ambassador to China David Perdue, who said the Trump administration has approved $11 billion in arms sales to Taiwan and is discussing additional sales. Perdue said US policy on the island remains unchanged after Xi Jinping's state visit, and that Washington does not support independence or coercion.

Xi pressed Trump during the visit to change the US wording on Taiwan, with China's readout saying he wants Washington to "oppose" independence rather than merely "not support" it. Taipei called that a distortion and said only Taiwan's people can decide their future. Trump played down the exchanges: "We didn't talk about it too much. Right now it's, you know, fine. It's just moving along." Taiwan's representative to the US urged faster weapons deliveries, calling the island's chip industry an important part of its security ties with Washington.

The summit produced a two month extension of the trade truce, a $30 billion reciprocal tariff reduction, a communication channel for AI incidents and the loan of two giant pandas to Zoo Atlanta, with no breakthroughs on thorny issues such as Taiwan. The Institute for the Study of War said China could view the increased cooperation between the two countries as an opportunity to influence US policy on Taiwan.