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20
May
2024

Lai Ching-te inaugurated as Taiwan president

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📅 20 May 2024 📍 China, Taiwan

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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People in this event

Lai Ching-te

Hsiao Bi-khim

Organizations in this Event

Office of the President

Republic of China