Former White House economic aide Brian Deese will represent President Joe Biden at the inauguration of Taiwanese President-elect Lai Ching-te in Taipei.
Richard Lee Armitage, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush and later identified Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA operative in a media leak.Center for Asia Policy Studies nonresident senior fellow Richard Bush, who was chair of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S.
The Biden administration has reiterated how the U.S. has traditionally sent delegations to Taiwanese presidential inaugurations since Taiwan’s first fully democratic elections in 1996 as China threatens to react to allies and partners of the Lai government. “The inauguration is part of a normal, routine democratic process, as is the sending of this delegation,” the official said.
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