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Newly elected Lai Ching-te and his vice presidential running mate, Hsiao Bi-khim, in Taipei on Saturday. Photo: Daniel Ceng/ShutterstockTaiwan’s election of the presidential candidate China most distrusts puts at risk a fragile detente between Washington and Beijing, threatening another flare-up between the world’s biggest economic and military powers. Voters on Saturday gave the Democratic Progressive Party four more years in power, this time by choosing as president-elect the current vice president, Lai Ching-te , whom China condemns as an inveterate agitator for Taiwan’s independence—an outcome that Beijing has vowed to prevent, by force if necessary.

Persons: Lai Ching, Hsiao, Daniel Ceng, Shutterstock Organizations: Saturday, Democratic Progressive Party Locations: Taipei, China, Washington, Beijing

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Biden’s coming summit follows a period of spiraling tensions. Photo: Alex Brandon/Associated PressThe U.S. and China made it official, announcing Friday that President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet next week for a summit that both powers say they want to keep their sprawling rivalry in check. The summit in the San Francisco Bay Area, which U.S. officials said will take place next Wednesday, will be the leaders’ first face-to-face meeting in a year. It comes after a period of spiraling tensions over technology, U.S. support for Taiwan and other issues and follows months of painstaking maneuvering by both governments to stabilize ties.

Persons: Xi Jinping, Biden’s, Alex Brandon, Biden, ’ Organizations: Associated Press, San Francisco Bay Area Locations: China, San Francisco Bay, Taiwan

Persons: Xi Jinping, Biden’s, Alex Brandon, Biden, ’ Organizations: Associated Press, San Francisco Bay Area Locations: China, San Francisco Bay, Taiwan

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NATO leaders wrapped up two days of meetings in Lithuania on Wednesday having reaffirmed political pledges to Ukraine, but failing to agree to a timeline for its admission to the alliance. Photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty ImagesThe U.S. and allies across Europe and the Asia-Pacific are holding together in confronting what they see as an increasingly entwined challenge from Russia and China, with a bout of diplomacy this past week showing the resilience as well as the limits of allied unity.

Persons: Ludovic Marin Organizations: Wednesday, Getty Locations: Lithuania, Ukraine, AFP, Europe, Asia, Pacific, Russia, China

Persons: Ludovic Marin Organizations: Wednesday, Getty Locations: Lithuania, Ukraine, AFP, Europe, Asia, Pacific, Russia, China

The U.S. and China have described Taiwan as the most volatile flashpoint in their increasingly fraught bilateral relations. Now, after months of sparring by Washington and Beijing over the Ukraine war, a suspected surveillance balloon, TikTok and other issues, Taiwan is set to return to the center of great power tensions, with the island’s leader traveling to the U.S.

U.S. officials are warning China against supplying Russia with arms and ammunition, as Moscow struggles to gain ground in Ukraine despite deploying almost the entirety of its ground forces in its smaller neighbor. Concerns that China was considering providing lethal assistance to Russia first surfaced in meetings between officials late last year and early this year, officials said. U.S. officials put their Chinese counterparts on notice in videoconferences and at in-person meetings that China is “nearing a red line” in assisting Russia’s war, the officials said.

Asked if he plans to tell Chinese President Xi Jinping that he is committed to defending Taiwan from Chinese aggression, President Biden said, ‘I’m going to have that conversation with him.’President Biden said he plans to discuss how the U.S. and China can avoid conflict when he meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his coming Asia trip, but won’t make concessions on critical issues. “What I want to do with him when we talk is lay out what each of our red lines are, understand what he believes to be in the critical national interests of China, what I know to be the critical interests of the United States, and to determine whether or not they conflict with one another,” Mr. Biden told reporters in Washington. “And if they do, how to resolve it and how to work it out.”

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