Taiwan’s new president to take office as China says independence and peace
‘like water and fire’
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Lai Ching-te expected to use inauguration speech to call for China and
Taiwan to pursue peace
Taiwan’s president-elect Lai Ching-te will be sworn into of...
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ReplyDeleteA mood of crisis enveloped Washington late Monday as a midnight deadline (0400 GMT) loomed with no sign of compromise between the Democratic-led Senate and Republican House of Representatives to head off the first US government shutdown in 17 years.
More than 800,000 non-essential federal workers were to be placed on unpaid furloughs beginning midnight due to the impasse.