As Taiwan cannot directly call United States President Donald Trump due to its unique diplomatic situation, it has adopted an alternative approach to capture his attention—engaging with the MAGA community, with support from the White House.

Since taking office earlier this year, Trump has vacillated on his position towards China-claimed Taiwan as he seeks to strike a trade deal with Beijing.

Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping has told him he won’t invade while the Republican leader is in office, but is also yet to approve any new U.S. arms sales to Taipei.

The fear in Taipei, which has long enjoyed strong unofficial support from Washington, is that a Trump-Xi meeting next week in South Korea could see some sort of “selling out” of Taiwan’s interests by Trump to Xi.

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