TAIPEI: New Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen called for “positive dialogue” with China in her much-anticipated inauguration speech Friday, striking a conciliatory tone in the face of an increasingly hostile Beijing.

Tsai took office as the island’s first female President after winning a landslide victory in January to defeat the ruling Kuomintang, ending an eight-year rapprochement with Beijing under outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou.

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