Taiwan's Is Making a Preemptive Move to Avoid the Worst

The head of Taiwan's National Security Council arrived in the United States for talks with Trump's administration, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, days after China concluded war games around Taiwan.

Joseph Wu was leading a delegation for a meeting known as the “special channel,” the Financial Times reported earlier.

It marked Trump's first use of the channel since returning to the White House on January 20.

Earlier this week, China's military concluded two-day war games around Taiwan in which it held long-range, live-fire drills in the East China Sea, marking an escalation of exercises around the island.

Taiwan has denounced China for holding the drills. The United States, Taiwan's most important international supporter and main arms supplier despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, condemned the latest exercises earlier this week.

China has stepped up rhetoric against Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, calling him a “parasite” on Tuesday in the wake of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Asia visit, during which he repeatedly criticized Beijing.

The White House and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

China views Taiwan as its own territory and has repeatedly denounced Lai as a separatist. Lai, who won election last year, rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims and says only Taiwan's people can decide their future.

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