{"id":64222,"date":"2024-05-20T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/tsa-ing-wen-taiwan-new-president-inauguration-lai-ching-te"},"modified":"2024-05-20T11:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T02:48:59","slug":"tsai-ing-wen-the-leader-who-brought-taiwan-closer-to-the-us-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64222","title":{"rendered":"Tsai Ing-wen, the leader who brought Taiwan closer to the US, bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s first female president has presided over big social changes, but her main legacy is the cultivation of the island\u2019s rising prominence on the world stage<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/lai-ching-te-taiwan-new-president\">Taiwan\u2019s new president takes office as China says independence and peace \u2018like water and fire\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a riot of yellow braids, glitter and spandex, garnished with a huge yellow water lily, Taiwan\u2019s latest global celebrity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QgLQ6mmNgXU\">danced her heart out<\/a> for the island\u2019s diminutive, softly spoken president, whose mild manners belie her outsized legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Tsai Ing-wen, 67, stepped down as Taiwan\u2019s president on Monday. Before handing over the keys, on Wednesday she welcomed Taiwan\u2019s most famous drag queen, Nymphia Wind, for a live performance in the presidential office. After sashaying to Lady Gaga\u2019s Marry the Night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/taiwan-president-lauds-nymphia-winds-win-on-rupauls-drag-race\">Nymphia Wind<\/a>, who recently won the 16th season of the US reality show RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race, thanked Tsai for \u201call these years of making Taiwan the first in so many things\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/tsa-ing-wen-taiwan-new-president-inauguration-lai-ching-te\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s first female president has presided over big social changes, but her main legacy is the cultivation of the island\u2019s rising prominence on the world stageTaiwan\u2019s new president takes office as China says independence and peace \u2018like water and fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64223,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64222\/revisions\/64223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}