President Donald Trump, in his return to the White House, has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan, an approach that’s raising questions ahead of this week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping about whether the U.

Xi offered a tour of the Forbidden City. Trump and first lady Melania Trump even had a private dinner there. Trump was the first foreign leader since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949 to experience what was once reserved for emperors.

Holding no illusions about making lasting deals at this week's summit, China's leader looks to project Beijing as an alternative to U.S. volatility on the world stage.

It will be the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, with the last visit being Trump in 2017

One card Taiwan holds is its robust semiconductor sector, the world’s largest, which the US relies on to maintain an edge in its advanced-technology race against China

Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, a Republican congressman from Michigan, introduced the Protecting U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites from Foreign Adversaries Act on Thursday aimed to safeguard U.S. national security and food security by closing gaps in federal oversight of foreign land acquisitions.

In February, President Xi, in a rare public reference to the military crackdown, had said that the army had "undergone revolutionary tempering in the fight against corruption".