AIT Chair Laura Rosenberger, former national security advisor Stephen Hadley and former deputy secretary of state James B. Steinberg are meeting with top officials in Taiwan as the first U.S. delegation to visit after Saturday's national elections.
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00:00 President Tsai Ing-wen says a visit from a delegation of former top U.S. officials highlights
00:05 the close and staunch relationship between the U.S. and Taiwan.
00:09 The group is also voicing Washington's continued support for peace and stability in the region.
00:15 Based on our unofficial but warm relationship, our insistence on exclusively peaceful means
00:21 to address the cross-strait issues, the importance of dialogue and the avoidance of unilateral
00:28 efforts to change the status quo.
00:32 The delegation arrived just one day after the DPP's Lai Ching-de won Saturday's presidential
00:36 vote.
00:37 In their meeting with Lai, he promised to maintain the cross-strait status quo while
00:40 working with friendly countries like the U.S.
00:43 The delegation will meet later with leaders of the TPP and the KMT.
00:47 They say the U.S. is looking forward to working with officials across Taiwan's political spectrum.
00:51 Taiwan's continued strengthening efforts.