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Xi Jinping and Donald Trump met in Beijing in mid-May, with Xi warning mishandling Taiwan could push relations into a dangerous place.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because a doubling of PLA sorties and two carrier groups inside the first island chain sharply raises the odds of an accidental clash, and any real blockade would choke off the advanced chips that power the world's phones, cars, and weapons.
Part of the monitored dynamic Taiwan Strait Pressure · VUCA INDEX 66/100
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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 2JUL 4
batonrougepost.com — US diplomat wants to turn Taiwan into hornets nest of drones
"a mid-May meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in Beijing, where Xi reportedly warned that mishandling disagreements over Taiwan could push China-US relations into an "extremely dangerous place.""
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from batonrougepost.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 5.
Extracted JUL 4; approved JUL 5 at 0.45.
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