Note: It is 12 noon EST, Friday, Dec 2, 2016. Google timed this report "10 hours ago." 联合早报网 at Singapore, in 即时报道 (Google: "8 hours ago"), Quoted the report almost entirely.
"In related news, Stephen Yates, who was deputy security advisor to former US vice president Dick Cheney, is in Taiwan.
"He is scheduled to meet with Tsai, Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lee (李大維) and National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) before returning to the US tomorrow.
"Yates was in charge of drafting this year’s Republican Party platform and is good friends with Reince Priebus, who was recently appointed Trump’s White House chief of staff.
"Washington sources said that Yates is to be appointed to a position in the White House after Trump's inauguration.
Note:
(a) Up to the quotations above, the report is the English version of the sister publication, Liberty Times. So There is no need to read the rest.
(b) Stephen Yates 葉望輝. 總裁, Dc International Advisory, undated (under the heading 中文自傳; in traditional Chinese). http://dciadvisory.com/Yates-bio-pic-CN.pdf
("葉先生曾於2001至2005年間，擔任美國前副總統錢尼(Dick Cheney)國家安全顧問")
However, the English original of his biography in the firm's website is "Mr Yates served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs from 2001 through 2005." Take notice the "assistant." The English biography also states, "In August 2014 Mr Yates was elected chairman of the Idaho Republican Party [He srill is] * * * He resides in Idaho Falls" -- a city of 56,813 (2010 census) that "serves as a hub to all of eastern Idaho and much of western Wyoming." en.wikipedia.org