Taiwan's President Is In The U.S. On A Stopover To Central America



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Taiwanese president heads to Central America without holding any meetings with Trump and his team during stopover in Houston

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen did not meet US president-elect Donald Trump or members of his team during her stopover in the United States on the weekend, avoiding a move that would have riled a jittery Beijing.

A spokeswoman for Trump’s transition team, Jessica Ditto, said in an email on Saturday there would be no meetings between Tsai and officials representing the president-elect in the US, the ­Associated Press reported.

Tsai arrived in Houston on ­Saturday on her way to Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El ­Salvador. She will stop off in San Francisco after her visit to Central American allies before flying back to Taiwan.

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