Taiwan presidential inauguration live: ‘China’s threats to annex Taiwan will not simply disappear,’ says Lai Ching-te

Lai makes first speech as president in historic third term in power for the pro-sovereignty Democratic Progressive party (DPP)

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The Guardian's Helen Davidson and Chi Hui Lin are at the inauguration in Taipei. They have this report:

It is a sea of bucket hats outside the Presidential Office.