Trump Is Playing a Risky Game on Taiwan

Excerpt President Trump’s decision to hold back a $14 billion arms package for Taiwan makes a certain amount of diplomatic sense. After last year’s bruising trade war, Washington and Beijing are trying to preserve a fragile tariff truce while negotiating a broader set of economic agreements. Delaying the arms sale avoids adding another immediate source of friction to an already strained relationship. Mr. Singleton is the senior director of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.