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Taiwan ex-premier heading delegation to Trump inauguration

BEIJING — A former Taiwan premier will represent the island at Mr Donald Trump's inauguration Friday (Jan 20).

Former Taiwan premier Yu Shyi-kun (centre). AFP file photo

Former Taiwan premier Yu Shyi-kun (centre). AFP file photo

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BEIJING — A former Taiwan premier will represent the island at Mr Donald Trump's inauguration Friday (Jan 20). 

Mr Yu Shyi-kun will be joined by lawmakers and local government officials representing both the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and the opposition Nationalists.

The US has no formal relations with Taipei in deference to China, which claims the island as its own. However, the two maintain robust informal ties and Washington sells Taiwan arms and is legally bound to regard any threat to the island as a matter of grave concern.

Mr Trump upset decades of diplomatic precedent by talking by phone with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen shortly after his victory in November's presidential election. Last week, he said in a newspaper interview that Washington's "one China policy" under which it recognised Beijing in 1979 was open to negotiation. AP

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