Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s Mr Democracy, to be given state funeral

Taiwan will hold a state funeral for its late president Lee Teng-hui, a controversial political figure lauded on the self-ruled island as “Mr Democracy” but condemned by mainland China during his tenure as a separatist who should be “tossed into the dustbin of history”.Lee died at the age of 97 on Thursday after spending the previous five months in hospital in Taipei.President Tsai Ing-wen, who has described Lee as her mentor, ordered that the late leader be given a state burial to mark his…

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