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On 13 January 2024, Lai was elected president of the Republic of China with approximately 40% of the vote, [68] and was inaugurated on 20 May 2024. [69] Under Lai, Taiwan continued the previous administration's New Southbound Policy, signing an investment pact with Thailand in June 2024. Thailand became the fifth trading partner to sign an ...
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024 as part of the 2024 general elections. [1] [2] Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the incumbent president of the Republic of China, was ineligible for reelection due to term limits.
On Saturday, Lai, 64, the current vice president from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won a widely watched election to become Taiwan’s next president.
Hsiao, the former Taiwanese Representative to the United States and a former member of the Legislative Yuan, was sworn in on the same day as vice-president, and become Taiwan's first biracial vice president, having been born in Kobe, Japan to a Taiwanese father and European-American mother.
Rising from a young legislator to the mayor of Tainan from 2010 to 2017, Lai became a key figure in the party's "new tide" faction, advocating at one point for the inclusion of a clause on Taiwan ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Voters in Taiwan elected Vice President Lai Ching-te as their next president on Saturday, defying warnings from Beijing not to support a candidate it has called a separatist and ...
In the 2020 presidential election, she was re-elected as president after winning the election against Han Kuo-yu. [4] Her presidency is succeeded by Lai Ching-te of the DPP on 20 May 2024. Tsai is the second president from the DPP, and also the first popularly elected president to have never served as the Mayor of Taipei.
Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwan’s new president on Monday, extending the rule of a party that is viewed with suspicion by China. ... “If Donald Trump is re-elected,” he said, “then all ...