Xi is expected to press Trump at this week’s Washington summit to halt U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, citing the 1982 U.S.-China joint communiqué.

INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

Xi is expected to press Trump at this week’s Washington summit to halt U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, citing the 1982 U.S.-China joint communiqué. Beijing is also pushing Washington to stop deliveries of weapons Taiwan has already ordered. One source said Xi may argue that “Taiwan is the provocateur and the sole source of instability in U.S.-China relations.” The U.S. said in 1982 that it intended to gradually reduce arms sales, but Ronald Reagan separately made that commitment “conditioned absolu