Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/23
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan and Joseph Yeh
Taipei, Feb. 23 (CNA) Taiwan’s government announced a long-rumored reshuffle of top
Joseph Wu (吳釗燮, CNA file photo)
Cabinet posts Friday, with the country’s foreign and defense ministries and top agency for China policy all getting new leaders.
Presidential Office Secretary-General Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) is to replace David Lee (李大維) as foreign minister, while Lee will head the National Security Council (NSC), government officials said Friday.
The NSC position was vacated by Yen Teh-fa (嚴德發), who was tapped as defense minister to replace Feng Shih-kuan (馮世寬), the officials said.
Wu has been President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) confidant on national security matters since she became Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairwoman in 2014.
He was a key member of Tsai’s transition team after she was elected president in January 2016 and then served as NSC secretary-general for about a year after Tsai assumed office in May 2016, before being transferred to his current position. [FULL STORY]
