“Having set the stage for a year of high-level engagement with the Trump administration, Xi Jinping is now chasing his ultimate prize, according to people familiar with the matter: a change in U.S. policy that Beijing hopes could isolate Taiwan,” the Wall Street Journal reports.“As President Trump has shown interest in striking an economic accord with China in the coming year, the people said, the Chinese leader is planning to press his American counterpart to formally state that the U.S. ‘opposes’ Taiwan’s independence.”“Since coming to power in late 2012, Xi has made bringing Taiwan under Beijing’s control a key tenet of his ‘China Dream’ of national revival. Now, well into an unprecedented third term, he has repeatedly emphasized that ‘reunification’ is inevitable and can’t be stopped by outside forces—a reference to Washington’s political and military support to Taipei.”