FOCUS: Trump's adherence to U.S. policy on Taiwan reassures Asian partners

BEIJING - U.S. President Donald Trump did not make any changes in Washington's long-held policy on Taiwan during his just-concluded visit to China, giving reassurances to American regional partners amid rising cross-strait tensions.

China had applied pressure on the United States to alter its rhetoric on the self-ruled democracy in the run-up to the summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, such as to explicitly oppose the island's independence, but the official U.S. line of "not supporting" it remained intact.