MC at @iingwen inauguration: "Taiwan is not only a country that can take care of itself, but can also take care of others."

the king of Eswatini gives his well wishes

lost count of how many countries' politicians have appeared in this video congratulating Tsai (excluding dip allies): Latvia, Lithuania, Fiji, India, US, Germany, Denmark, Japan, UK, Canada, France, Slovakia, Czech Rep, Korea, Indonesia, India, Australia (i've missed out some)

Matt Pottinger with another speech in Chinese. "these are not just American or Western values."

a reference to Fang Lizhi that might interest @yangyang_cheng

. @SecPompeo didn't record a video message, but someone is reading out his congratulatory msg to Tsai now

now a performance of a Hakka folk tune (no doubt there'll be a major focus on Taiwan's diversity in this ceremony)

a socially distanced inauguration. Taiwan is living in the future again.