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Former US official linked to Trump visits Taiwan
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/former-us-official-linked-to-trump-visits-taiwan/Former senior US official with links to Donald Trump’s transition team flew to Taipei Tuesday, sparking more speculation over relations with Taiwan after the president-elect’s unprecedented call with the island’s leader.
Stephen Yates, once a deputy national security advisor to former US vice president Dick Cheney, told journalists he was making a long-planned personal trip but did not rule out meetings with senior Taiwanese officials.
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Yates, who was named as the facilitator of the call in news reports but denied he set it up, told a packed press conference in Taipei that “we have very significant challenges” if Beijing “could be provoked to conflict of some kind based on a phone call”.
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Yates denied that he represented the Trump administration but said he speaks “with friends in the transition from time to time, in confidence”.
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That will go over well....not.