Taipei: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will transit through Houston and San Francisco during a January visit to Latin America, her office said on Friday, sparking sparking renewed calls from China for the United States to block any such stopover.

Ms Tsai's office declined to comment on whether she would be meeting members of US President-elect Donald Trump's team, but the US mission in Taiwan, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), said the visit would be "private and unofficial".

Mr Trump angered China when he spoke to Ms Tsai earlier this month in a break with decades of precedent and cast doubt on his incoming administration's commitment to Beijing's "one China" policy.

China is deeply suspicious of Ms Tsai, who it thinks wants to push for the formal independence of Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing regards as a renegade province, ineligible for state-to-state relations.