Janis Mackey Frayer is a Beijing-based correspondent for NBC News.
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s new president was sworn into office on Monday, extending the rule of a party that is viewed with suspicion by China, which claims the self-governing island democracy as its own territory.
That is partly because of recent outreach from former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and a group of legislators from the Kuomintang, the more Beijing-friendly opposition party, who made separate visits to China in past weeks. After those visits, some cross-Strait tourism and trade that had been frozen was reopened.
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