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US delegation to attend Taiwan inauguration as China tensions flare
President Joe Biden will dispatch former US officials to Taiwan as its new president takes office, a show of support for the island calibrated to avoid enraging Beijing. Biden is sending a bipartisan delegation to Monday's (May 20) inauguration of Taiwanese president-elect Lai Ching-te consisting of former White House economic adviser Brian Deese, one-time State Department official Richard Armitage, Brookings Institution Taiwan expert Richard Bush and Laura Rosenberger, who runs the nonprofit organization that manages unofficial US-Taiwan relations, according to a senior administration official. Beijing has labelled ... (full story)
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