The China Post
Date: January 9, 2017
By: Stephanie Chao, The China Post and CNA
TAIPEI, Taiwan — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s camp said Saturday that it would not meet
President Tsai Ing-wen arrives at a banquet hosted by overseas compatriots in Houston, Sunday, Jan. 8. Tsai is making a brief U.S. transit stop before heading to Honduras as part of a four-country tour through Central America. (CNA)
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her transit in Houston en route to Central America.
Tsai landed in Houston on Saturday and will leave for Honduras on Sunday, local time, in the afternoon.
A member of Trump’s transition team said Saturday that neither Trump nor transition team members would be meeting with Tsai, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency.
Tsai’s routine stopover is closely watched by Beijing in the wake of a surprise phone call on Dec. 2 that Trump accepted from the Taiwan president, upending decades of U.S. foreign policy.
In Houston Tsai received high-level treatment upon arriving in Houston, with Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold, American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Chairman James Moriarty and Taiwan’s Representative to the United States Stanley Kao greeting her at the airport. [FULL STORY]
