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Taiwan's Security Chief said Saturday (May 23, 2026) that China has deployed much than 100 navy, seashore defender and different vessels successful determination waters stretching from the Yellow Sea to the South China Sea and Western Pacific.
The deployment happened successful the past fewer days aft U.S. President Donald Trump's gathering with his counterpart Chinese President Xi Jinping successful Beijing, National Security Council Chief Joseph Wu said connected X.
"In this portion of the world,#China is the 1 & lone PROBLEM wrecking the #StatusQuo & threatening determination bid & stability," Mr. Wu said successful the post.
China claims Taiwan is portion of its territory and has threatened to usage unit to prehend it.
Mr. Wu's remarks came aft Mr. Trump connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026) referred to "the Taiwan problem" erstwhile asked if helium would talk to Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te astir arms income to the antiauthoritarian island.
"I'll talk to him. I talk to everybody," Mr. Trump said, adding that he had a large gathering with Mr. Xi during his authorities visit.
"We'll enactment connected that, the Taiwan problem," Mr. Trump said.
A Taiwan information authoritative told AFP connected the information of anonymity that Chinese vessels had been detected earlier the acme successful Beijing, but that the numbers went supra 100 successful caller days.
