Tsai-Trump phone call not impromptu act, planned for six months: Ex-Taiwan envoy

A former Taiwanese top envoy to the United States that facilitated the historic phone call between President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and then-U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in 2016 said on Saturday that the telephone conversation was not an impromptu act but had been planned for six months.

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