US and Taiwanese diplomatic officials are unusually talked about China or October 22 15:56
A US State Department official met with the deputy director of the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Trump administration seems to have an aim to squeeze China by taking the unusual response of announcing prior talks.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Stillwell, who is in charge of East Asia at the US State Department, met with Deputy Director Xu Si, who is in charge of the United States and other departments in Taiwan's diplomatic department number 2, on 21st in Washington.
After the meeting, Mr. Xu revealed that he had exchanged opinions on NHK and other interviews regarding the relationship with the country in which Taiwan had a diplomatic relationship, the situation in Hong Kong where the turmoil continued, and the Taiwan presidential election next year.
Deputy Director Xu said, “We exchanged opinions with the Department of Defense, the Department of Defense and the White House. Thanks to the support of the US government and parliament for Taiwan.”
Since the United States has a “one China” policy that has no diplomatic relations with Taiwan, it has refrained from making public talks even if Taiwanese officials visited Washington.
However, the Trump administration has enacted the “Taiwan Travel Act” that promotes mutual traffic between US officials, and this time, the US Department of State has taken the extraordinary response of announcing the meeting in advance, and will squeeze China There seems to be an aim.
The US Department of State commented to NHK, "We will pursue a constructive relationship with China while maintaining an informal relationship with Taiwan."