Taiwan's Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Chih-chung said that stability in the Taiwan Strait is a shared interest of the entire world, and expressed confidence that the United States will follow through on its arms sales to Taiwan — a positive signal for Taipei, though doubts remain over whether the sales will be delayed.

• Taiwan has become a more prominent issue since the Trump-Xi meeting, and Taipei stresses that it will not be treated as a bargaining chip in deals between major powers.
• Wu Chih-chung said that allowing China to hold overwhelming military power in the Taiwan Strait would be detrimental to regional peace, and that all countries therefore have an interest in maintaining the status quo.
• Taiwan's semiconductor industry is seen as a key asset: blockading the Taiwan Strait would amount to blockading the entire region, making it no less important than the Strait of Hormuz or the Suez Canal.
• The foreign ministers of the United States, Japan and South Korea, along with representatives from Australia, France, Germany, New Zealand, Poland, the United Kingdom and other countries, issued a joint statement ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting reaffirming the importance of peace in the Taiwan Strait.
• At the same time, Taipei accuses Beijing of using "narrative diplomacy" to distort history, for example by claiming that UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 concerns Taiwan.

Outlook: Taiwan will continue to strengthen its self-defence (a "policy that did not begin today"), and will watch closely to see whether the US arms sales are delivered on schedule.