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

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.After departing China, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he had ma…READ FULL ARTICLE