Matt Pottinger Former United States Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger is leading a Washington-based think tank as he is visiting Taiwan.
He is expected to meet President Tsai Ing-wen and other officials in the region and discuss security issues.
During their stay from Sunday through Friday, Pottinger, chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' (FDD) China Program, will also meet with National Security Council Deputy Secretary-General Hsu Szu-chien and Deputy Foreign Minister Roy Lee, country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement as quoted by Focus Taiwan.
Pottinger's delegation will also pay a visit to the Ministry of National Defense, Coast Guard Administration, and Ministry of Digital Affairs to exchange views on national security and strategy, digital resilience and information security issues, MOFA said.
Other members of the delegation include FDD chief executive Mark Dubowitz, and Jacob Nagel, a senior fellow at FDD who previously served as head of Israel's National Security Council and as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's national security advisor (acting), among other positions.
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