The outgoing Honduran president said on Nov. 13 that he hopes his country will continue its friendship with Taiwan even after his presidency, with his comments coming as the Central American country could switch its diplomatic recognition to Beijing. “We are real friends,” Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez told Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on the second day of a three-day surprise visit to Taiwan. “Only real friendship can be seen at difficult times,” he said at the presidential office in Taipei. “We hope to deepen such friendship and diplomatic ties either within or after my presidency,” said Hernandez, who is completing the second of his two four-year terms and is due to leave office in January. Hernandez visited Taiwan as president in 2015 and 2016, after a previous visit as the speaker of the Central American country’s Parliament in 2010, according to the Taipei-based Central News Agency. Tsai called Hernandez’s …