CHINA-TAIWAN: U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT REVEALS PLAN TO HOLD SECOND ROUND OF CLOSED-DOOR TALKS WITH TAIWAN ON JANUARY 7

The South China Morning Post (January 6) reported that in a rare move, the US State Department made public the schedule of the closed-door talks, to be held online at 6.30 pm on January 6, in Washington (7.30 am Thursday in Taipei) with Clarke Cooper, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, among those taking part. The sensitive round of dialogue comes two months after the first US-Taiwan Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue was held in Washington – the result of a brief trip to Taiwan by US Under Secretary of State Keith Krach, who was the highest-ranking State Department official to visit the island in more than four decades. According to the semi-official Central News Agency in Taipei, Taiwan was expected to send officials from the foreign and defence ministries to attend the videoconference, which is to focus on regional developments, US-Taiwan military cooperation and arms sales.





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