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🇺🇸🇹🇼US and Taiwanese defense officials held secret talks in Alaska US and Taiwanese defense officials held talks in Alaska last week, a US official said on Thursday, a move likely to anger China. Jed Royal, the Pentagon’s top Indo-Pacific official, met Hsu Szu-chien, then-Taiwan’s deputy national security adviser, in Anchorage. The talks came months after a Washington meeting between more senior American and Taiwanese officials was cancelled, partly over concerns that it could derail a potential bilateral meeting between President Donald Trump and the Chinese president Xi Jinping. #USA#Taiwan @asianomics