Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/18
By Joseph Yeh, CNA staff reporter
The Chinese saying: “Hsiang Feng Chi Shih Yu Yuan” (相逢即是有緣), can be loosely
Eric Aldrich
translated as “each and every encounter is a matter of fate” and provides a loose framework for Eric Aldrich’s experience with Taiwan.
One might say it was fate that brought him to the island in the early 1990s after taking a position as an English teacher at the Taipei YMCA for 18 months.
After more than two decades, Aldrich has returned to Taipei, to work in the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), which represents U.S. interests in the absence of official diplomatic ties.
He is a cultural affairs officer in AIT’s Public Diplomacy Section and also serves as director of the institute’s American Center, responsible for strengthening educational and cultural ties between the United States and Taiwan. [FULL STORY]
