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Lai Ching-te uses inauguration speech to push for peace in the region and says future of Taiwan important to future of the world
Lai Ching-te has been as Taiwan’s new president, urging China to “cease their political and military intimidation against Taiwan” and to keep the world free from the fear of more war.
Lai was inaugurated on Monday morning at the Japanese colonial-era presidential office in central Taipei, taking over from Tsai Ing-wen, whose saw a deterioration in relations with Beijing.

In his first address since being inaugurated as president, Lai Ching-te said peace was the 'only option' and called on China to stop making political and military threats towards Taiwan.
Lai said the new government would make no concessions on democracy and freedom and called for cooperation between China and Taiwan, starting with tourism and student links. He continued: 'Let us together pursue peace and mutual prosperity'

It’s the first ballet company to give Asian Americans a space to be surrounded by fellow dancers, choreographers and artistic staff of the same racial background.

Lai was sworn in at Taiwan's presidential office in central Taipei, taking over from Tsai Ing-wen, having served as her vice president for the past four years. His role as Taiwan's new president puts him at the helm of the self-ruled island as China ramps up military and political pressure on Taiwan.

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The Guardian’s Helen Davidson and Chi Hui Lin are at the inauguration in Taipei. They have this report:
It is a sea of bucket hats outside the Presidential Office.

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A new anthology by Chinatown’s omnipresent documentarian, who captured half a century of shifting identities, activism, and daily life.

Taiwan’s first female president has presided over big social changes, but her main legacy is the cultivation of the island’s rising prominence on the world stage
In a riot of yellow braids, glitter and spandex, garnished with a huge yellow water lily, Taiwan’s latest global celebrity for the island’s diminutive, softly spoken president, whose mild manners belie her outsized legacy.
Tsai Ing-wen, 67, stepped down as Taiwan’s president on Monday. Before handing over the keys, on Wednesday she welcomed Taiwan’s most famous drag queen, Nymphia Wind, for a live performance in the presidential office. After sashaying to Lady Gaga’s Marry the Night, , who recently won the 16th season of the US reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race, thanked Tsai for “all these years of making Taiwan the first in so many things”.

The Boston-based Asian American Ballet Project bills itself as the first Asian-American ballet company.