Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to press US President Donald Trump over a pending $14 billion American arms package for Taiwan when the two leaders meet in Washington on Thursday.A US-China conflict over Taiwan could severely curtail global access to chips used in cars, planes, artificial intelligence data centres and smartphones, Bloomberg Economics said in a February analysis. (File photo)Last week, Beijing is believed to have warned Washington that it would call off the summit if the US approved the deal, which has been in limbo for months.At their last meeting, in Beijing in May, Xi told Trump that…