MODERATOR：We’ll do one – we’ll move to the back.
QUESTION：Thank you very much. Dong Hui Yu with China Review News Agency of Hong Kong. Regarding “One China” and “One China” policy and Taiwan issue， yesterday you mentioned that you don’t anticipate that President Trump will have any surprising deviation from the longstanding U.S. “One China” policy. But I’m still curious if the Chinese side raised this issue and saying that， hey， you need me to cooperate on North Korea， it’s very urgent， but I would like you to abide by “One China” principle， abide by the Three Communiques， particularly the third communique reducing the arms sales to Taiwan. So what would you expect that Donald Trump will respond？ Thank you.
MR POTTINGER：We’ll see what comes up in the conversation between the two leaders. I don’t want to prejudge what topics will come up. But， as you mentioned， President Trump did reaffirm back in February longstanding U.S. policy – that’s our “One China” policy， which is consistent with the Three Communiques. It’s consistent with our obligations under the Taiwan Relations Act. I can say that there is no such thing as some kind of a trade along the lines of what you just mentioned， though.
QUESTION：Okay.
MODERATOR：In the back. John， please.
QUESTION：Hi， it’s John Kehoe from the Australian Financial Review. Matt， you， being an ex－business journalist， will probably appreciate this question as much as anyone. Financial markets， investors are very interested with the outlook between U.S. and China on the trade relationship with the talk of potential trade wars and tariffs， although that seems to have receded a bit lately. What can people expect for the outcomes on trade？ Will there be hard outcomes， or is this a more – they’ll define a framework？ And similarly， for allies in the Asian region who are a little bit nervous about a potential trade war down the track， what message would you send to them？
MR POTTINGER：So I think it is fair to say that trade and the economic relationship generally will be a significant topic of discussion between the presidents at the summit. The question of hard outcomes – again， the spirit of this summit is for the two to develop a relationship， to really establish a relationship， and to lay out the key concerns that each side has about the relationship and to then begin moving toward some kind of a formal series of dialogues that will aim to address those issues as well as areas of longstanding cooperation between the two sides. I’ll leave it at that for the moment.
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