The annual meeting—arranged before Monday's Biden-Xi summit—is to take place between Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
File: The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The United States will host senior Taiwanese officials in Washington, D.C., this week for high-level security talks.Unnamed senior officials in Taipei told the papers that the talks were being merged at the request of the U.S. The two-day dialogue was arranged before the date for the Biden-Xi summit was confirmed, but Washington did not seek to reschedule despite the tight timetable, reports said.
The meeting is likely to include relevant briefings about the U.S.-China leaders' summit that concluded late on Monday. Other routine agenda items include discussions about regional security, cross-Taiwan Strait relations and arms sales. Responding to reports about the upcoming talks, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Monday afternoon Beijing time that Taiwan was"the most important and sensitive issue in China-U.S. relations."
He repeated China's perennial call for Washington to"immediately stop all forms of official exchanges and military contacts with Taiwan." The statement, coming the day before the Biden-Xi summit, was brief and comparatively reserved. The U.S. has had no formal diplomatic ties with Taipei since Washington normalized relations with Beijing in 1979, but a robust economic, cultural and security relationship nonetheless remains.of 1979, successive American administrations have been obliged to sell defensive articles to the democratic island in order to assist with its self-defense capabilities. The same legislation—supported by Biden when he was a senator—also asks that the U.S.
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