Trump call with Taiwanese president on hold

President Trump is no longer expected to speak with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te before Chinese President Xi Jinping's potential trip to the United States this fall, multiple sources familiar with the discussions told CBS News. When Mr. Trump visited China earlier this month, Xi warned him that Taiwan could become a "very dangerous situation" if mishandled. Mr. Trump twice made international headlines in mid-May when he indicated that he would have a conversation with Lai before making a decision about selling a new package of defensive military weapons to the democratic self-governed island. "I'll speak to him," Mr. Trump told reporters last week when asked if he'd speak to Lai before greenlighting the arms sale. "I have to speak to the person that right now is — you know who he is — that's running Taiwan," Mr. Trump said two weeks ago on Air Force One. No sitting U.S. president has spoken directly with a Taiwanese leader since 1979 due to diplomatic sensitivities in managing relations with China, although in December 2016, while Mr. Trump was president-elect, he received a congratulatory call from then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ying-wen. "I think [Lai], if he has time, would love to tell him our side of the story, the Taiwan story, which is one that — of resiliency, of a state staying up against the Chinese aggression," Alexander Yui, Taiwan's Representative to the U.S., told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 17. Taiwan's de facto embassy in the U.S. …