Taiwan president-elect Lai to face China’s ire after victory

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By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Taiwan's new president-elect, Lai Ching-te, is likely to face his toughest task yet when he takes office in May and has to deal with the ire of China which has repeatedly denounced him as a dangerous separatist. Lai, who won Saturday's election, repeatedly said during the campaign that he wanted to keep the status quo with China, which claims Taiwan as its own, and offered to talk to Beijing. "We don't want to become enemies with China. We can become friends," Lai, widely known by his English name William, told a Taiwanese...