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...Mike Gallagher, head of the US House China committee, will visit Taipei next week with a group of lawmakers in a show of support for Lai Ching-te ahead of his May inauguration as president of Taiwan....
...Several prominent US lawmakers will travel to Taipei in the coming weeks in a show of support for Lai Ching-te, who will be inaugurated as Taiwan’s new president in May following his election victory on...
...The Sullivan-Wang meeting also comes one month after Lai Ching-te won the presidential election in Taiwan. China views Lai, who will be inaugurated in May, as a dangerous separatist....
...The new cabinet will take office upon Lai’s inauguration on May 20....
...It may explain why vintage is on the rise....
...The US, UK and European parliament have called for Lai’s release, with UK foreign secretary David Cameron saying he was “gravely concerned” about Lai’s “politically motivated prosecution”....
...And that led to the My Lai massacres. War crimes or war? In Gaza, Israel will continue to kill “innocent” civilians and regretfully call it “collateral damage”. This is war....
...Lai said his government, which takes office on May 20, would seek consensus with the opposition before implementing policies and consider including people from other parties in his administration....
...The meeting comes as Beijing is preparing for a further DPP government under Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s current vice-president who will be inaugurated as president on May 20....
...China’s Communist party has sharpened its rhetoric towards Taiwan, raising the pressure on the country as its president-elect Lai Ching-te prepares to take office in May....
...Deng sat down with Nikkei Asia weeks before president-elect Lai Ching-te is due to replace two-term leader Tsai Ing-wen on May 20, continuing the reign of the pro-sovereignty Democratic Progressive party...
...“That is even though from the voters’ perspective, domestic issues may be more important: people are tired of the DPP after eight years in office....
..., a group set up by a veteran DPP politician close to Lai....
...He added that after the president’s inauguration on May 20, China would probably continue or even step up its pressure campaign against the DPP....
...[Beijing] may actually feel positive about the lower margin of Lai’s election, and they are probably also pleased that there is a divided government and such a strong showing in parliament for the [opposition...
...Marc Filippino So Taiwan’s president-elect, he doesn’t technically take office until May. But in the meantime, what should we know about him? Who is Lai Ching-te?...
...Lai was leading before a polling blackout was imposed on January 3....
...Their nimble close harmonies recall their Flemish countrywomen Laïs, but Las Lloronas are more varied stylistically than that group’s galloping folk rock....
...Washington has warned Beijing not to overreact to the recent election of Lai Ching-te as Taiwan’s president, including taking assertive military actions around the country ahead of his inauguration in May...
...Washington has urged China not to take provocative actions as Taiwan prepares for Lai’s inauguration in May....
...Lai is seen as the frontrunner against a divided opposition....
...Hou Yu-ih, running for the opposition Kuomintang, has implied that a victory by Lai, the frontrunner, would drag Taiwan into a war with China....
...They follow the election on Saturday of Lai’s Democratic Progressive party which won an unprecedented third term in office....
...The Chinese leader may never see the “changes unseen for a century” that he dreams of....
...Lai Shyh-bao, a Kuomintang politician and member of the Financial Committee, questioned whether the FSC was trying to regulate ETFs or their promotional tactics, saying that the regulator had always encouraged...
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