New Delhi, May 17 -- US President Donald Trump returned from Beijing signalling he may withhold a $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan, after wide-ranging talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in which the two leaders confronted one of the most dangerous fault lines in global geopolitics.

The summit, held in Beijing this week, produced no dramatic rupture but left Taiwan's government, and American allies across Asia, unsettled by Trump's willingness to discuss arms sales to Taipei directly with Beijing, and by his apparent reluctance to risk conflict over an island he described as a distant priority.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on the journey back to Washington, US President Donald Trump said he was uncertain whether ...