Blinken to meet Chinese official on Taiwan vote

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 13, 2024 12:13 am

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet a senior Chinese official in Washington on Friday on the eve of Taiwan's elections, as the United States seeks to discourage Beijing from taking action against Taipei.

Blinken, briefly back in Washington in between his latest Middle East crisis tour and a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, will see Liu Jianchao, who heads the international division of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, the State Department public schedule showed.

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