Lai Ching-te took office after Taiwan’s election and delivered an inaugural address calling for dialogue while affirming the island’s democratic self-government. Beijing rejected his framing and continued to claim Taiwan as part of China. The inauguration matters to a decolonial history because it centers the agency and political choices of people living in Taiwan rather than treating the island solely as an object of great-power diplomacy.
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