Tsai Ing-wen's tasks may get a lot tougher in her second term

IT WAS inevitable that Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's second inauguration would get tossed about in Cold War rhetoric between the United States and China.

To Beijing's ire, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congratulated Ms Tsai last week and hailed her "courage and wisdom". In turn, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang carefully omitted the usual "peaceful" qual…

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