The Taiwan issue was not mentioned in the second session between Sichuan and Xi. Scholars: It is not the most urgent matter at present.

After the second meeting between Trump and Xi, the White House and Beijing each released lists of facts and consensus on outcomes, but neither mentioned the Taiwan issue. Scholars said that the Taiwan issue is the core issue in US-China relations, but it is not the most urgent issue that needs to be faced at present.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with US President Donald Trump in Washington. This was the second meeting between the two sides this year. The White House and Beijing successively released a list of facts and "China and the United States reached an 8-point consensus on results" on the 26th Taiwan time. None of the content mentioned the Taiwan issue.

Zhang Wuyue, chief consultant of the Cross-Strait Relations Research Center of Tamkang University, said that he believes that Xi must have stated something about the Taiwan issue, otherwise the official Xinhua News Agency would not be able to put words into Xi's mouth that he has not said. The main focus of this Sichuan-Xi meeting is to achieve phased progress on some issues, but it is definitely not the Taiwan issue.

He emphasized that from the Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing in May to the Trump-Xi meeting in Washington, there were no major changes or major issues in the interaction between the United States and Taiwan that Beijing must be highly concerned about. Xi’s mention of the Taiwan issue is a reaffirmation of his consistent position. The most important and core issue in U.S.-China relations is the Taiwan issue; however, the Taiwan issue is not the most urgent and needs to be dealt with at the moment.

Zhang Wuyue mentioned that before the second meeting between Trump and Xi, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Chinese official media did not release information about the Taiwan issue being mentioned by both sides. From this, it can be seen that the United States and China did not regard the Taiwan issue as the focus of the talks. The outside world has over-interpreted Taiwan's "transactional nature" with the United States and China.

Wang Hongren, a professor at the Department of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University, said that Taiwan was not mentioned in any external information released by the United States and China. It is speculated that the main reason is that the two sides do not have a consensus on this issue. Furthermore, the Taiwan issue is not a key issue in this Sichuan-Xi meeting. Xi’s mention of Taiwan in the meeting also has a large internal propaganda effect.

Wang Hongren believes that the content of the interview given by the US Ambassador to China David Perdue to the US media after the Trump-Xi meeting should be taken seriously. He said that this visit should not be regarded as an ordinary visit. Pang Dewei reiterated the US policy towards Taiwan after the second meeting between Trump and Xi, which represented a message directed by the top to be released to the outside world.