Episode 34: Bonnie Glaser - The Trump - Xi Jinping meeting accomplished ?

Among the thorniest and most delicate issues that Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will face is the future of Taiwan given that any question of its being an integral part of China is the ultimate red-line of China's foreign policy. Therefore, the discussion of Taiwan during the two Presidents' Summit May 14/15 2026 is a major topic of conjecture between Taiwan-China relations experts, of which Bonnie Glaser is a leading interlocutor. Her views are sought by leaders throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.Polaris-Live is fortunate to have Ms. Glaser speak to its global audience immediately after the Presidential Summit to slice through the diplomatic verbiage that will emerge from the Presidential meeting's official press releases and offer her unvarnished view of what if anything was agreed on Taiwan but also on other Asia-Pacific hot buttons such as Japan's rearmament pland, China's claim to most of the South and East China Sea, and whether the U.S. intends to continue being a strong player in Asia-Pacific.  ---------------------------------------------- Bonnie GlaserMs. Glaser is managing director of GMF’s Indo-Pacific program. She is also a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. She is a co-author of US-Taiwan Relations: Will China's Challenge Lead to a Crisis (Brookings Press, April 2023). She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and US policy for more than three decades.