China has a direct warning to the U.S. when it comes to Taiwan.

The lead starts right now.

Xi Jinping making it clear that U.S. could, will, pay a price for any interference with Taiwan.

We know that because of what China revealed about the

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lead.

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start in our worldly today where we are

hours away from the final talks in this critical summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and

Chinese President Xi Jinping. And in these talks so far, Taiwan has emerged as an explosive issue.

Here's what we know. President Xi issued a stark warning to the U.S. Do not test China when it comes to Taiwan.

This is according to a readout of the meeting shared by Chinese state media.

In it, it says, Xi said if the issue of Taiwan is mishandled, the U.S. and China could, quote, collide or even enter into conflict, pushing the entire China-U.S. relationship

into a highly dangerous situation, unquote.

Indeed, given that both the U.S. and China are nuclear powers.

For context, China's ruling Communist Party claims Taiwan as its sovereign territory, despite

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