I am pretty sure Trump would not go to Taiwan's defense, and I suspect Xi also thinks so. That's bad, indeed potentially disastrous.
But the refusal to commit explicitly to such defense, either to Xi or to a reporter, is actually correct longstanding US policy.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mlvc4jormg2d
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