WASHINGTON (May 20, 2024) – Lai Ching-te was inaugurated as Taiwan’s President on Monday. After being elected in January, Lai Ching-te addressed his country and called on China to stop its military and political threats. Reuters reported that, “peace was the only choice and that Beijing had to respect the choice of the Taiwanese people.”
For more context on the matter, please consider John W. Tai, Professorial Lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Tai is a Senior Advisor at Pamir Consulting LLC and a Course Coordinator at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, where he teaches courses on China and Taiwan.
Tai is the author of Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China and has written on China’s technological, political, and economic developments, Taiwan’s military diplomacy and its external relations. Tai can interpret Lai Ching-te’s speech with respect to Taiwan’s relations with China and its implicatons for the United States.
If you wish to speak with Professor Jon W. Tai, please contact Media Relations Specialist Shannon Mitchell at shannon [dot] mitchell
gwu [dot] edu (shannon[dot]mitchell[at]gwu[dot]edu).
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