Some in the Taiwanese government are cautious about spreading the frontier of this technology off the island. Trump wasted little time in claiming the firm's decision to bring its highest level of technology to the US was due to his economic policies.
Although the talks established a special status for the country's two anglophone regions which acknowledged their unique history, very little was resolved in practical terms.Felix Agbor Nkongho - a barrister who was one of the leaders of the 2016 protests and was later arrested - says that with both sides now seeming to act with impunity, the moral high ground has disappeared.
"There was a time… where most people felt that, if they needed security, they would go to the separatists," he tells BBC Africa Eye."But over the last two years, I don't think any reasonable person would think that the separatists would be the ones to protect them. So everybody should die for us to have independence and I ask the question: who are you going to govern?"But it is not just the separatists who are accused of abuses.
Organisations such as Human Rights Watch have recorded the brutal response of the security forces to the anglophone independence movement. They have documented the burning of villages and the torture, unlawful arrests and extrajudicial killings of people in a war largely unseen by the outside world.Examples of state-sponsored brutality are not difficult to find.
John (not his real name) and a close friend were taken into custody by Cameroonian military forces, accused of buying weapons for a separatist group.
John recalls that after being incarcerated, they were given a document which they were told to sign without being given the chance to read its contents. When they refused, the torture began.Trump later warned the concession could be short lived.
On 23 May, the president threatened to impose a 25% import tax "at least" on Apple iPhones not manufactured in America.On 4 May, Trump said
The UK and the US have reached a narrow agreement over tariffs on some goods traded between the countries., mainly cars, machinery and pharmaceuticals.