Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is cutting short a planned trip to Japan, Mongolia, and South Korea, at a time when U.S. ties with Beijing are at their worst in decades in the face of the coronavirus, which has now infected President Donald Trump and the First Lady Melania.
The visit, originally scheduled for Oct. 4 to 8, will now only include meetings with his foreign ministry counterparts from the “Quad” countries—Australia, India, and Japan—on Oct. 4 to 6 in Tokyo.
