Lee Teng-hui: Taiwan's 'father of democracy' dies
Ahead of the vote, mainland China conducted months of intimidating war games and missiles tests around the water to influence the election against him.
If the situation were to escalate, some fear the US could potentially join Taiwan against China in a war that neither Washington, nor Beijing really wants to fight.While his predecessor Chiang Ching-kuo paved the way for democracy, Lee Teng-hui made it a reality. But he has also been criticised for unnecessarily antagonising China, and raising tensions between Taiwan and the mainland.
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