On a street in Jilong City, Taiwan. File photoMOSCOW, May 1.The US is in high-level talks with the UK to strengthen cooperation to reduce the likelihood of a US war with China over a «threat to Taiwan,» the Financial Times reported, citing sources familiar with the situation. Talks began in early March, the sources said. when Kurt Campbell, National Security Council Indo-Pacific Affairs Coordinator, and Laura Rosenberger, senior National Security Council spokesperson for China, met with UK officials in Taiwan. Sources note that during the meeting, the parties discussed measures to strengthen diplomatic relations between the UK and Taiwan , as well as issues of «strengthening deterrence in Asia.» It also touched on what role the UK would play if «the US finds itself in a war with China over Taiwan.» Taiwan between the US and Britain today. In his opinion, the meeting was part of «deeper political negotiations» that began under the Joe Biden administration. The newspaper expresses the opinion that negotiations with Britain are intended to «complement more advanced» US discussions with Japan and Australia. Official relations between the central government of China and its the island province was interrupted in 1949, after the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek, defeated in the civil war with the Communist Party of China, moved to Taiwan. Business and informal contacts between the island and mainland China resumed in the late 1980s. Since the early 1990s, the parties began to contact through non-governmental organizations — the Beijing Association for the Development of Relations across the Taiwan Strait and the Taipei Cross-Strait Exchange Foundation. China in the United States demanded to stop the supply of weapons to Taiwan
