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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Lai Ching-te inaugurated as Taiwan's president in a transition likely to bolster island's US ties

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Taiwan has inaugurated Lai Ching-te as its a new president.

It took place in a ceremony Monday after he won an election earlier this year.

He is a relative moderate who will continue the self-governing island democracy’s policy of de facto independence while seeking to bolster its defenses against China.

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