WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with a top Chinese official in Hawaii on Wednesday as new revelations about President Donald Trump and China rocked Washington.
Pompeo and his deputy Stephen Biegun held closed-door talks with the Chinese Communist Party’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, according to a senior State Department official on the base.
No reporters were allowed to travel with Pompeo and Biegun, and coverage of the event was expected to be extremely limited.The meeting, which lasted more than six hours including a lunch break, wrapped up about 3:50 p.m.
Hawaii time (0150 Thursday GMT), said a senior State Department official who attended it.The discussions, which were expected to.