China Flies Warplanes Near Taiwan as Senior U.S. Diplomat Visits

TAIPEI—Beijing flew military services plane shut to Taiwan on a day that a senior American diplomat met with Taiwan’s president as portion of a sequence of current U.S. moves to enhance ties with the self-dominated island.

Undersecretary of Condition Keith Krach, the highest-rating Condition Office formal to check out the island given that Washington cut official ties with Taipei four decades ago, expressed U.S. assist for deeper cooperation at a meal Friday night hosted by President Tsai Ing-wen, her business claimed.

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