"Don't Sell Weapons to Taiwan"... Will Xi Jinping Ask Trump at the Summit?

[Financial News] A report says Chinese President Xi Jinping will ask U.S. President Donald Trump to halt arms sales to Taiwan at their summit.
According to major foreign media outlets on the 22nd, China may raise its interpretation of the 1982 August 17 Joint Communiqué at the summit on the 24th, the third joint statement between the United States and China.
The August 17 Joint Communiqué is a document that China has consistently cited in opposing U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. In the communiqué, the United States said it had no intention of pursuing a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan. It also said the quality and quantity of such sales would not exceed the levels following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China and would gradually decline.
However, U.S. President Ronald Reagan set a condition for reducing arms sales to Taiwan in a separate statement. The pledge would stand only if China maintained its policy of seeking a peaceful resolution to the Taiwan issue.
As a result, the two countries have differing interpretations. China views the communiqué as an explicit U.S. promise to gradually reduce and eventually end arms sales to Taiwan, while the United States maintains that China's efforts toward a peaceful resolution must come first.
The United States also argues that, under the Taiwan Relations Act, it may provide defensive weapons to enable Taiwan to maintain sufficient self-defense capabilities.
However, China is reportedly asking the United States to halt not only new arms sales but also deliveries of weapons Taiwan has already ordered. Reports also say that China has signaled it would help the United States by exerting influence on Iran in connection with the war in the Middle East in return.
Last December, the United States approved arms sales to Taiwan worth $11.11054 billion, the largest package ever, or approximately 16 trillion won. China strongly protested and subsequently conducted large-scale military drills around Taiwan.

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