troublemaker. he was welcomed by one of washington's unofficial representatives in taipei. paula hancock joins us. how are u.s. officials responding to this chinese criticism? >> reporter: well, rahel, what we know at this point from senior administration officials is that this is an unofficial transit visit. they say it is in keeping with the one china policy, but that's really not the way that beijing sees it. the u.s. also saying that this is fairly routine. in fact, william himself at the beginning of last year did a transit through the u.s. the president has also stopped off in the u.s. but it always angers beijing who sees taiwan as part of its territory despite never having controlled it. the so what we heard from william lai, he was on sunday with a group of taiwanese americans, he said in a speech

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