Lee Teng-hui, Who Guided Taiwan on Its Path to Democracy, Dies at 97

Lee Teng-hui, who as Taiwan’s first native-born president steered the island’s transition to democracy, grew to become its first popularly elected chief and championed a way of Taiwanese id separate from mainland China, died on Thursday. He was 97 years outdated.

Mr. Lee handed away at 7:24 p.m. native time at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, the place he had been receiving remedy since February after choking on milk, in accordance to Taiwan’s state-owned Central News Agency.

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