MAJOR UPDATE: China Demands U.S. to Back Down
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Jay Sekulow
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Could China's demands derail President Trump's first meeting with Xi Jinping? China warns that tensions over Taiwan could jeopardize China's relationship with the United States. The Sekulow team discusses the Beijing Summit, the Trump Administration's foreign policy with China, the ACLJ's legal work – and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We got a major update from China as Xi Jinping confronts President Trump about Taiwan. |
| 0:06.3 | Keeping you informed and engaged. Now more than ever. This is Sekulow. |
| 0:13.3 | We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments. Recall 1-800-684-3-110. And now your host, Logan Secular. Welcome to Seculo. We do have a very packed show today, and we're going to continue to talk about what's going on in China right now. President Trump is there, along with, you know, members of the tech community, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, a lot of those people are there right now. |
| 0:39.5 | And President Trump spoke. We know there's also been an ongoing conversation between President |
| 0:43.6 | Trump's Eugene Ping and its relationship. One of the big things that came up was what it looks |
| 0:48.4 | like with our future relationship with Taiwan and what we consider to be, I guess, the freedom of Taiwan and their own independence. |
| 0:57.4 | This has been a big, big issue before, and it came up very clearly. |
| 1:02.6 | Now, I think maybe, Will, we should even give people a little brief background of what we're |
| 1:05.9 | talking about here, because I think if you're not paying attention to the world stage, |
| 1:08.8 | you may not understand the sort of contentious, ongoing, but somehow also related interest that exists between Taiwan as part of |
| 1:17.6 | China, not as part of an independent source, and then their want for independence and their |
| 1:21.9 | claim of independence. |
| 1:23.3 | That's right. |
| 1:23.6 | So the Chinese government, at some point, they believe in reunification is what they call it, |
| 1:31.0 | where Taiwan will be a part once again of China. The United States for a long time has had this |
| 1:39.0 | doctrine called strategic ambiguity, where we don't take a direct position on whether for the |
| 1:48.5 | people of Taiwan whether or not we support them in an independence bid but also |
| 1:55.6 | we don't directly say whether or not we would defend Taiwan if there was hostilities from mainland China. |
| 2:04.6 | So we stay in this kind of bubble zone of strategic ambiguity and able to keep the peace, so to speak. |
| 2:14.6 | We know that China's goal is to reunify with Taiwan. Most people in the |
| 2:22.3 | United States see an independent Taiwan as a better thing than reunification. We will have Mike Pompeo, |
| 2:30.0 | who has been very outspoken on this issue in a few segments from now. But when we know that this is a contentious issue, we know that this is something that |
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