A few hours after the meeting, on May 14, in Beijing, between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the official Chinese media showed themselves satisfied with the flattery addressed by the tenant of the White House to their leader. “Donald Trump a dit à Xi Jinping : ‘You are a great leader’†, titre Renmin Ribao (“The People’s Daily†) on May 14. On the very popular Chinese social network WeChat, this organ of the Chinese Communist Party even devoted an entire publication to this compliment.
obviously, Huanqiu Shibao also views this major diplomatic event favorably. If this Chinese nationalist newspaper claims that the meeting between the two leaders “reassured the whole world†, This is probably not the case for Taiwan, an island of 23 million inhabitants in the southeast of the continent, which finds itself, without knowing it, being a central subject between the two leading world powers.
A “conflict” for Taiwan?
“Taiwan is the most important issue†of the meeting between the two leaders, notes the daily Renjian Fubao. Concerning the status of the island, the Chinese president stressed to his American counterpart its primordiality in the diplomatic ties between the two capitals. Xi Jinping warned that if this issue “was not managed correctly,
