US and Taiwanese defence officials held secret talks in Alaska last week, days before President Xi Jinping flaunted China’s military might to the world at a parade attended by fellow strongmen.
Jed Royal, the Pentagon’s top Indo-Pacific official, met Hsu Szu-chien, then-Taiwan’s deputy national security adviser, in Anchorage, according to several people familiar with the matter.
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.
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