Lai Ching-te inaugurated as Taiwan’s president in a transition likely to bolster island’s US ties

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has inaugurated Lai Ching-te as its a new president.

It took place in a ceremony Monday after he won an election earlier this year.

He is a relative moderate who will continue the self-governing island democracy’s policy of de facto independence while seeking to bolster its defenses against China.

The Associated Press