Taiwan's new president inherits a strong foreign policy position but political gridlock at home

Open this photo in gallery: Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during the naming and launching ceremony of domestically-made submarines at CSBC Corp’s shipyards in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, on Sept. 28, 2023. Taiwan’s president-elect Lai Ching-te is set to take office on May 20. Building on the legacy of incumbent president Tsai, Ing-wen means aiming to strike a balance between cultivating Taiwan’s unofficial alliance with the United States, and maintaining peace with China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, to be retaken by force if necessary.Chiangying-ying/The Associated Press In a campaign ad for Taiwan's President-elect Lai Ching-te, incumbent…