Taiwan’s ties with the United States are “rock solid,” the island’s president said Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke on the phone, including about the self-ruled island’s future.

TAIPEI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan will seek an extension to ‌the ​date by which an agreement must ‌be signed with the United States for a batch of weapons deliveries given ​an ongoing standoff in parliament about defence spending, the island's defence ministry said on Friday.

TAIPEI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Kratos Defense and Taiwan's military have successfully tested a new jet-powered attack drone, a move aimed at rapidly boosting the island's ability to field "large numbers" of low-cost drone amid a rising Chinese threat.

Taiwan has finally succeeded in reaching a trade deal with the Trump administration in the United States. After the latest round of trade negotiations between the U.S. and Taiwan, the Lai administration announced that it had successfully lowered tariffs from 20 percent to 15 percent, which will not stack onto most-favored-nation rates.

Taiwan, for its part, would contribute "elite troops," and Washington might assign personnel in Guam or elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region to help.

Would President Trump commit U.S. forces to defend Taiwan in case of invasion or blockade by China? His trade skirmishes with rivals like China and friends like Canada, on and off support for Ukraine,

Senior Taiwanese and U.S. officials discussed cooperation in artificial intelligence, tech and drones at a high-level forum begun during the first Trump administration, with