TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's new president, Tsai Ing-wen, has a reputation as a patient, canny negotiator and she'll need those skills as she takes responsibility for what is potentially one of Asia's most dangerous flashpoints.
Tsai, 59, leader of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), is being sworn in on Friday as the first woman president of Taiwan, a beacon of democracy off the coast of Communist Party-ruled China.
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