Days before President Donald Trump departed for Asia where he will sit down with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday for their first in-person meeting of his second term, the president refused to count out the possibility of America’s position on Taiwan getting tangled in US-China trade talks.

President Trump said the issues of Taiwan, Russian oil and Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell chip weren’t raised during his wide-ranging meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday.

China will look to ramp up its military targeting of Taiwan in the next two years, a security expert has warned, as  Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are urged to address the possibility of war in their upcoming summits.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to press the U.S. to shift its policy on Taiwan when he meets this week with President Donald Trump, who is pushing for a trade deal.

By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Tuesday that he was not worried that U.S. President Donald Trump would "abandon" the island in his meeting this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says "walking away from Taiwan" is not on the agenda for this week's talks in South Korea between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Newsweek reached out to the White House and to the Chinese Foreign Ministry via email for comment outside of regular office hours.

Beijing is using state media outlets to amplify its claims over Taiwan, a move likely intended to reinforce its position on a sensitive issue before a meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump.

Taiwan is "confident" in its relations with the U.S., Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Thursday, ahead of a meeting between the U.S. and Chinese presidents where the issue of the island Beijing claims as its own could come up.

After meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, U.S. President Donald Trump revealed that the topic of Taiwan “never came up” during their talks — a remark that has fueled speculation about Washington’s commitment to the self-ruled island.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reaffirmed Australia’s support for the “status quo” on Taiwan, regarding its relationship with China.

As U.S. President Donald Trump headed to the Pacific this week for a string of meetings including with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, officials in Beijing ramped up their already growing efforts to present the "reunification" of Taiwan with the mainland as increasingly inevitable.