Taipei Times
Date: Aug 11, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
In a video announcing his pending arrival today, incoming American Institute in
Incoming American Institute in Taiwan Director Brent Christensen speaks in a video clip released by the institute yesterday. Photo: Screen grab from the Internet
Taiwan (AIT) Director Brent Christensen yesterday said he hopes that he could work with diverse actors to further the economic and cultural relations between Taiwan and the US during his tenure.
Greeting the AIT’s 100,000 Facebook fans in Mandarin and Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese), Christensen said that it is a strange turn of fate for him to be returning to the US institute for a third tour.
“The first time I came to Taiwan was in the 1970s… AIT is the destination of my first overseas positing as a diplomat. Twenty years after that, I also had the privilege of serving as the institute’s deputy director [from 2012 to 2015],” Christensen said in Mandarin.
“And now, I will be coming back to the AIT once again, as its director. What a turn of fate,” he said, adding that he and his family have been counting down the days until they can reunite with their old friends in Taiwan and make new ones.
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