The remarks came ahead of Trump’s planned talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

President Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping told him he wouldn’t make a move on Taiwan while Trump is in office. “I said, ‘Well, I appreciate that.’ But he also said, ‘But I am very patient, and China is very patient.

President Trump’s first-term ambassador to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, warned on Sunday that Chinese President Xi Jinping “is watching” President Trump’s approach to negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

At his office in Taipei, Wu Chih-chung pulls out a small stack of papers titled Xi Jinping’s Gradual Move Toward Personal Dictatorship.