TAIPEI: Taiwan's leader Tsai Ing-wen will meet United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California, rather than in the island's capital Taipei, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Tuesday, hours after Taipei warned that a high-profile US visit could provoke a Chinese military response.

Tsai's government had provided McCarthy's staff with intelligence about Chinese threats, the newspaper reported, citing an unidentified senior Taiwanese official.

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