Several hours after the meeting on May 14 in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, Chinese official media outlets expressed satisfaction with the compliments paid by the occupant of the White House to their leader. “Donald Trump said to Xi Jinping: ‘You are a very great leader’,” Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily) reported on May 14. On the popular Chinese social network WeChat, this organ of the Chinese Communist Party even dedicated an entire post to this compliment.
Of course, Huanqiu Shibao also views this major diplomatic event in a positive light. While this Chinese nationalist newspaper claims that the meeting between the two leaders “reassured the whole world,” this is probably not the case for Taiwan, a territory of 23 million inhabitants in the southeast of the continent, which finds itself unwittingly at the center of attention between the two world powers.
Un “conflit” pour Taïwan ?
“Taiwan is the most important issue” of the meeting between the two leaders, according to the daily Renjian Fubao. With regards to the status of the island, the Chinese president emphasized to his American counterpart its importance in the diplomatic relations between the two capitals. Xi Jinping warned that if this issue is not handled correctly,
