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Lai Ching-te is sworn in as President of Taiwan, with Hsiao Bi-khim as his Vice President.
2024-05-20

President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen meets with Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, despite Chinese diplomatic pressure in response to the meeting.
2023-04-5

Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou becomes the first Taiwanese leader to visit mainland China since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, meeting with China's Taiwan Affairs Office deputy chair Chen Yuanfeng in Shanghai. Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party criticized this visit as "endorsing" China's position on Taiwan.
2023-03-27

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb visits Taiwan and meets with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
2022-08-22

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen regrets and strongly condemns the move by the Solomon Islands to cut ties with Taiwan and establish relations with China.
2019-09-17

Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui is rushed to Taipei Veterans General Hospital after falling and hitting his head.
2018-11-29

The President of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou visits Taiping Island, Taiwan's largest island in the South China Sea, despite the United States warning it could provoke diplomatic tensions with the People's Republic of China and other nations in the area.
2016-01-28

The Special Investigation Division of Taiwan initiates a review stemming from allegations that President Ma Ying-jeou has received illegal political donations from Ting Hsin International Group, a disgraced conglomerate at the center of the recent food scandal.
2014-12-26

President of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou praises the flotilla of fishermen that sailed to waters around Senkaku Islands earlier in the week in order to assert Taiwan's territorial claim. [http:--www3.nhk.or.jp-daily-english-20120927_24.html (NHK World)]date=August 2019
2012-09-27

Voters in the Republic of China go to the polls for the 2012 presidential election. Incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou ultimately wins re-election with 51% of the vote, defeating Democratic Progressive Party chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen.
2012-01-14