Lai Ching-te
President of the Republic of China since 2024
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| 2025 | Lai announced plans to reinstate military trials for active-duty personnel and labeled China a 'foreign hostile force' under the Anti-Infiltration Act. |
| October 2024 | During National Day celebrations, Lai Ching-te reaffirmed Taiwan's commitment to resisting Chinese annexation and emphasized the island's sovereignty. |
| June 2024 | Under Lai's leadership, Taiwan signed an investment pact with Thailand, marking Thailand as the fifth trading partner to secure an investment agreement with Taiwan since the initiation of the New Southbound Policy in 2016. |
| May 20 2024 | Lai Ching-te was inaugurated as president and appointed Cho Jung-tai, the ruling party's former chairman, as premier. |
| May 20 2024 | Took office as the eighth President of the Republic of China (Taiwan). |
| May 20 2024 | Lai Ching-te took office as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan). |
| January 13 2024 | Lai claimed victory in the presidential election, marking the first time that a political party had won three consecutive presidential terms since direct elections were first held in 1996. |
| 2023 | Lai became the new chairman of the DPP after being the only candidate running in the DPP chair election. |
| November 21 2023 | Lai formally registered his presidential campaign at the Central Election Commission along with his running mate, Hsiao Bi-khim. |
| April 2023 | Nominated by the Democratic Progressive Party as their presidential candidate for the 2024 presidential election. |
| April 2023 | Lai was nominated by the DPP as their presidential candidate for the 2024 presidential election. |
| March 2023 | Lai registered as the only candidate to run in the DPP's 2024 presidential primary. |
| 2022 | Following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, Lai made a private trip to Tokyo to pay his respects, marking him as Taiwan's most senior official to visit Japan in five decades. |
| 2022 | After heavy losses in local elections, president Tsai Ing-wen resigned as leader of the DPP, prompting Lai to officially register as a candidate for the DPP chair election in December. |
| November 2022 | Lai led representatives of Taiwan's travel agencies and industry associations to Palau to foster collaborations between the two countries. |
| January 2022 | Lai Ching-te served as president Tsai Ing-wen's special envoy to Honduras for president Xiomara Castro's inauguration. |
| 2020 | In the 2020 presidential election, Tsai Ing-wen, with Lai Ching-te as her running mate, secured over 57% of the ballot, winning a record 8.17 million votes and beginning her second term. |
| 2020 | Lai Ching-te's first grandson was born in the United States. |
| 2020 | Lai served as Tsai's running mate in the Taiwan presidential election. |
| November 2019 | Lai Ching-te accepted President Tsai Ing-wen's offer to be her running mate for the 2020 presidential election. |
| June 13 2019 | The DPP's primary poll results were released, showing that Tsai Ing-wen defeated Lai Ching-te with 35.67 percent of the vote to Lai's 27.48 percent, making Tsai the DPP's presidential candidate for the 2020 election. |
| March 18 2019 | Lai Ching-te registered to run in the Democratic Progressive Party presidential primary, marking the first serious primary challenge against a sitting president in Taiwanese history. |
| January 14 2019 | Lai left office as premier after the swearing-in of his successor Su Tseng-chang. |
| January 11 2019 | Lai's cabinet resigned, and Su Tseng-chang was appointed as the new premier. |
| November 2018 | Lai Ching-te tendered his resignation to President Tsai Ing-wen following the ruling DPP's defeat in local elections but agreed to stay in office until the general budget was cleared. |
| November 24 2018 | Lai announced his intention to resign from the premiership after the Democratic Progressive Party suffered a major defeat in local elections. |
| October 2017 | A survey reported that Lai had garnered the approval of 68.8 percent of respondents. |
| October 20 2017 | In response to Xi Jinping's comments on the one China policy, Lai reiterated the Taiwanese government's commitment to not change the status quo and resist pressure from Beijing. |
| September 2017 | Lai Ching-te stepped down as Mayor of Tainan after being appointed to the Premiership. |
| September 26 2017 | During his first appearance at the Legislative Yuan, Lai stated that he advocates for Taiwan independence but affirmed that Taiwan is already an independent sovereign nation. |
| September 8 2017 | Lai Ching-te took office as the 49th Premier of Taiwan. |
| September 5 2017 | President Tsai Ing-wen announced at a press conference that Lai Ching-te would become the next head of the Executive Yuan. |
| 2014 | Lai was re-elected as Mayor of Tainan. |
| November 29 2014 | Lai stood for reelection against Huang Hsiu-shuang of the Kuomintang and won by 45 percentage points, marking the largest margin of victory in any municipal race during that election. |
| June 5 2014 | Lai Ching-te visited Shanghai to assist in an exhibition of art by the late Taiwanese painter Tan Ting-pho and met with politicians from the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 2013 | An opinion poll conducted in 2013 ranked Lai as the most popular city and county head in Taiwan, with an approval rating of 87%. |
| December 25 2010 | Lai Ching-te officially took office as Mayor of Tainan. |
| November 27 2010 | Lai Ching-te stood as the DPP candidate for the mayoral election and won with 60.41% of the vote, defeating Kuomintang candidate Kuo Tien-tsai. |
| January 2010 | Lai Ching-te successfully won the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) primaries in January 2010, leading up to his candidacy for the mayoral election. |
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