(UPDATE) BEIJING: China on Sunday vowed "resolute and forceful measures" over a weekend trip by Taiwan leader William Lai to the United States it said it was closely monitoring.

Lai — Taiwan's second in command and frontrunner in presidential elections next year — is officially making only transit stops in the United States en route to and from Paraguay, where he will attend the inauguration of president-elect Santiago Pena.

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