At APEC in Peru, 宋楚瑜 in Private Talk with US Secretary of State Kerry

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In chronological order. Both EVENTS occur today (Nov 17), but (1) precedes (2). (Of course, the report itself of (1) comes after (2), because the print will appear on Nov 18 newspaper.

(1) 林良昇, 宋楚瑜會美國務卿凱瑞 表達台灣立場. Liberty Times, Nov 18, 2016.
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/1890389

(2) John Kirby (Spokesperson), Daily Press Briefing. US Department of State, Nov 17, 2016, 2:19 p.m. EST.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2016/11/264412.htm

The pertinent portion in toto:

"QUESTION: Can we go to APEC?

"MR KIRBY: APEC?

"QUESTION: Yes. I just want to make sure I understand – did you said at the beginning that the Secretary Kerry is planning to meet with the special envoy from Taiwan during the meeting?

"MR KIRBY: Yeah, I think that's what I said in there. Yeah. The Taiwanese APEC special envoy, James Soong. Yeah.

"QUESTION: Okay. Do you have more details on that? When is the meeting and --

"MR KIRBY: I don't know. As I said, these – I gave you a list of the meetings that he has today. Some of them have happened, some of them are happening as we speak, and again, I think you'll hear more from Mark [the transcript never explain who he is, or providers the last name], who's out there with the Secretary. He'll provide readouts of these meetings as they happen. The only one that I know we've read out so far is the meeting with Foreign Minister Kishida.

"QUESTION: What does United States want to get out from the meeting with – what should we set our expectations for?

"MR KIRBY: I'm not going to get ahead of it since I don't even know if it's happened, Nike. So why don't we just wait for the readout and I'm sure Mark will provide you the context on the back end of the meeting, okay?

"QUESTION: Could you at least give us some sense of the status of U.S.-Taiwan relations?

"MR KIRBY: There's been no change to our relations with Taiwan and there's been no change to our "one China" policy. I think you know that.