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Lai Ching-te in Taipei on Aug. 25, 2023. Credit - Wiktor Dabkowski—picture-alliance/dpa/AP. T aiwan President Lai Ching-te sat down with TIME in the Presidential Office Building in Taipei on May ...
Lai Ching-te. Lai Ching-te ( Chinese: 賴清德; born 6 October 1959), also known as William Lai, is a Taiwanese politician and former physician who is currently serving as the 8th president of the Republic of China since May 2024. He is the third member from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to assume the office of president.
The Republic of China calendar, often shortened to the ROC calendar or the Minguo calendar, is a calendar used in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu. The calendar uses 1912, the year of the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) in Nanjing, as the first year. The ROC calendar follows the tradition of using the sovereign's era name and year ...
The flag of the Republic of China, commonly called the flag of Taiwan, [2] [3] [4] consists of a red field with a blue canton bearing a white disk surrounded by twelve triangles; said symbols symbolize the sun and rays of light emanating from it, respectively. The flag was originally designed by the anti- Qing group, Revive China Society, in ...
On Wednesday, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said that as of 6 a.m. local time (6 p.m. Tuesday ET), it had detected 26 Chinese military airplanes, including nine that crossed the median line or ...
Tsai holds up Lai's hand at a DPP campaign rally in Taipei just days before Taiwan's presidential election on January 13, 2014. - Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
e. Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Art created by Chinese residing outside of China can also be considered a part of Chinese art when it is based on or draws on Chinese culture, heritage, and history. Early " Stone Age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of ...
This is the current list of the national symbols of China. The People's Republic of China (PRC) controls all of mainland China, while the Republic of China (ROC) controls Taiwan and nearby islands. See National symbols of Taiwan. Both countries used to claim to be the legitimate government of all of China, with Taiwan informally dropping ...