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Former US officials to arrive in Taiwan on Sunday for post-election talks

  • 14 Jan 2024
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Former US National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley and former Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg will arrive in Taipei on Sunday for post-election meetings with Taiwanese politicians, the de facto US embassy in Taipei said.

Taiwan's Lai Ching-te, from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won Saturday's presidential poll by a comfortable margin, but with less than half the vote his party lost control of parliament.

Before the poll China called Lai a dangerous separatist.

Lai takes office on May 20.

Reuters

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