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Taiwanese President Lands in US

by VOA News

   Taiwan's president landed in Houston Saturday in the southern state of
   Texas on her way to visit Central America.

   President Tsai Ing-wen will not be meeting with U.S. President-elect
   Donald Trump or any of his officials, the transition team said, despite
   a surprise call between the two leaders last month.

   Tsai had not said who she might contact while in Houston for about a
   day on her way to Central America or in San Francisco for about the
   same length of time enroute home later on.

   The de facto U.S. embassy in Taipei - the American Institute in Taiwan
   - says Tsai's stopovers, a courtesy Washington normally gives Latin
   America-bound Taiwan leaders, are for private business only.

   The trip, viewed in Taiwan as a test of Taiwan's stable but fragile
   foreign relations in the Americas, has drawn attention in Beijing,
   which already protested the U.S. stopovers and is expected to react if
   Tsai shows new signs of getting close to Trump.

   China sees self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory, not as a state
   entitled to foreign relations.

   Tsai is to visit Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador during
   her nine-day trip.