TAIPEI -- Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui died from an illness on Thursday, aged 97.
Lee helped to instill a shared sense of identity in the people of Taiwan through democratization and laid the groundwork for a Taiwan that stood in effective autonomy from China. He was a leading figure of his Taiwan generation, people who lived as Japanese on the island under the rule of Japan until the end of World War II.
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