{"id":25960,"date":"2026-05-13T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/25960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:00:48","slug":"taiwan-vs-china-is-conflict-inevitable-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/25960\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan vs China: Is conflict inevitable? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Taiwan vs China: Is conflict inevitable? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i_t7rx5AfBI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTaiwan vs China: Is conflict inevitable? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3After nearly a decade since his last visit, US President Donald Trump is meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in\u00a0Beijing in\u00a0a historic summit focused on global trade, technological rivalry and rising tensions over Taiwan, one of the world\u2019s most sensitive flashpoints.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddfcChina claims Taiwan as part of its territory while the United States continues to back the island with military support and strong diplomatic ties. Caught in the middle is a resilient democracy that has become one of Asia\u2019s greatest success stories, despite never being formally recognised as a sovereign state by most other countries.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5FRANCE 24&#8217;s Stella Elgersma takes a closer look at the tense triangle between Taiwan, China and the United States: how it came to be, what&#8217;s really at stake and whether a military confrontation is truly on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>01:42 A complicated history<\/p>\n<p>03:30 From isolation to status quo<\/p>\n<p>06:05 The United States, Taiwan\u2019s key ally<\/p>\n<p>07:37 Why is Taiwan so important?<\/p>\n<p>09:32 On the brink of war?<br \/>\n#Taiwan #DonaldTrump #XiJinping<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiwan vs China: Is conflict inevitable? \u2022 FRANCE 24 English \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf3After nearly a decade since his last visit,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[473,760,217,14,226,22,23,20,21,2192,46,20117,8725,3196,28,48,44,49,8726],"class_list":{"0":"post-25960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-france-24","14":"tag-france-24-english","15":"tag-france24","16":"tag-france24-english","17":"tag-history","18":"tag-military","19":"tag-sovereignty","20":"tag-taiwan","21":"tag-tech","22":"tag-trade","23":"tag-trump","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-war","26":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}