Former US officials to arrive in Taiwan on Sunday for post-election talks

Former U.S. National Security Advisor Stephen J. Steinberg will arrive in Taipei on Sunday for post-election meetings with Taiwanese politicians, the de facto U.S. embassy in Taipei said. Taiwan's Lai Ching-te, from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won Saturday's presidential poll by a comfortable margin, but with less than half the vote his party lost control of parliament. Before the poll China called Lai a dangerous separatist.

Former U.S. National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley and former Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg will arrive in Taipei on Sunday for post-election meetings with Taiwanese politicians, the de facto U.S. embassy in Taipei said. Taiwan's Lai Ching-te, from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won Saturday's presidential poll by a comfortable margin, but with less than half the vote his party lost control of parliament.

Before the poll China called Lai a dangerous separatist. Lai takes office on May 20.