Lai Ching-te pledged to "neither yield nor provoke" Beijing and said he sought peace in relations with the superpower.
Taiwan's new president, Lai Ching-te, said in his inauguration speech that he wants peace with China and urged it to stop its military threats and intimidation of the self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own territory.
Lai's party, the Democratic Progressive Party, doesn't seek independence from China but maintains that Taiwan is already a sovereign nation. "No matter how the situation on the island changes, no matter who is in power, it cannot change the fact that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one China ... and cannot stop the historical trend of the motherland's eventual reunification," Chen said.
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