Lai Ching-te has taken office as Taiwan's new president, facing a deeply suspicious China, which labels him a separatist, as well as a fractious parliament domestically, with a ready-to-challenge opposition.
Lai Ching-te has taken office as Taiwan's new president, facing a deeply suspicious China, which labels him a separatist, as well as a fractious parliament domestically, with a ready-to-challenge opposition.Lai Ching-te has taken office as Taiwan's new president, facing a deeply suspicious China, which labels him a separatist, as well as a fractious parliament domestically, with a ready-to-challenge opposition.
Beijing views proudly democratic Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Mr Lai, addressing the crowd outside the Japanese-colonial-era presidential office in central Taipei, repeated a call for talks with China, which views the proudly democratic island as its own territory, and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under China's control.
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