Taiwan president connects to Twitter during stop-over in San Francisco
Tsai Ing-wen visited the headquarters of the messaging app but did confirm if she had met CEO Jack Dorsey
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging service Twitter Inc and opened her official account on Saturday.
A source with knowledge of the president’s travel through San Francisco told Reuters she met the “head of Twitter” but declined to confirm if that person was CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not provide further details of her meetings in the US tech capital.
Tsai was returning from a week-long visit to Central America. But it was her stopovers in the US that raised more interest after president-elect Donald Trump said last month he would reconsider the long-standing “one-China” policy, whereby the United States acknowledges the Chinese position that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China.
He reiterated that possibility in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday, a week before his inauguration. China responded that the one-China principle was the non-negotiable political basis for Sino-US relations.
