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Tsai with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Salvadoran President Salvador Sánchez Cerén in 2017 The New Southbound Policy was launched on 5 September 2016 with the intent to make Taiwan less dependent on Mainland China and to improve Taiwan's cooperation with other countries. [ 149 ]
25 October 1945; 79 years ago () (Taiwan handover) 20 May 1948; 76 years ago () (current form) First holder: Sun Yat-sen (as Provisional President) Unofficial names: President of Taiwan: Deputy: Vice President: Salary: NTD 531,000 monthly (2024) [1] Website: english.president.gov.tw
The presidency of Tsai Ing-wen officially began on 20 May 2016 when Tsai Ing-wen was inaugurated as the seventh president of the Taiwan. Tsai, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, took office following her landslide victory in the 2016 presidential election over Kuomintang opponent Eric Chu and People First opponent James Soong.
On Monday, Tsai will hand the baton to her former premier and vice president Lai Ching-te, who will be sworn in as Taiwan’s new president after winning the ruling Democratic Progressive Party ...
Under leader Xi Jinping, China’s most assertive leader in a generation, Beijing has ramped up diplomatic, economic and military pressure on Taiwan, which it views as its own territory to be ...
Taiwanese voters have chosen a new leader in elections held under the shadow of an increasingly assertive China that has spent ... Taiwan's Vice President and presidential candidate of the ruling ...
Until 1986, Taiwan's political system was effectively controlled by one party, the KMT, the leader of which also was the President. Many top political officials were members of the party. The party claimed over 2 million members, and its net assets were reputed to total more than NT $61.2 billion, making it the richest political party in the world.
During his vice presidency, Lai served as president Tsai Ing-wen's special envoy to Honduras for president Xiomara Castro's inauguration in January 2022. [60] After the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe , he made a private trip to Tokyo to pay his respects and became Taiwan's most senior official to visit Japan in five ...