Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, the front-runner in January¡¯s presidential election, named the democratic island¡¯s former envoy to the United States as his running mate on Monday, as a tie-up agreement by his top two rivals for the presidency crumbled.
Lai, 64, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party¡¯s candidate, that he would tap Hsiao Bi-khim, 52, a fluent English speaker who had been Taiwan¡¯s de facto ambassador to the United States since 2020 and has deep ties to Washington, to join him on the DPP ticket.
¡°I believe that Bi-khim is definitely an excellent person when it comes to Taiwan¡¯s diplomatic work today, and she is a rare diplomatic talent in our country,¡± Lai wrote.
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