SURPRISE!A source said that Trump’s open acknowledgment of the call on Twitter caught Tsai’s staff unprepared, as the Presidential Office had kept it under wraps

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 05, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter

The Presidential Office yesterday urged the public to refrain from speculation following reports that President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) plans to meet with US president-elect Donald Trump when traveling to Central America on a state visit next month.

“Regarding media reports today [yesterday] that the president plans to meet with president-elect Trump and his team during a state visit next month, they are all just wild speculation,” the office said in a statement.

Details of any overseas state visit by Tsai or Vice President Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁) would be made public after they are confirmed and finalized, it added.    [FULL  STORY]