Taiwan’s Lai Wants to Tell Xi Jinping to ‘Chill Out’ Over Dinner
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Dinner with strangers can often be a little awkward, especially when your guest has threatened you with invasion. Still, that hasn’t deterred Taiwan’s Vice President Lai Ching-te from naming Chinese President Xi Jinping as the head of state he’d most like to have dinner with.
Lai, who is the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s candidate in next year’s presidential election, made the comments while answering a round of quick-fire questions from students at his alma mater National Taiwan University on Sunday.