Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/12/23
By: Lu Hsin-hui and Elaine Hou
Taipei, Dec. 23 (CNA) Former Premier Yu Shyi-kun (游錫堃) will lead a Taiwanese delegation on behalf
Former premier Yu Shyi-kun (游錫堃) (CNA file photo)
of the government to the inauguration ceremony of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump next month, the Presidential Office spokesman said Friday.
Yu, a senior Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) member who served as premier and secretary-general of the Presidential Office under the former DPP administration of President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), will lead the 11-member delegation that includes lawmakers from across the political spectrum to the Jan. 20 inauguration, Alex Huang (黃重諺) said.
The government is sending the delegation to show how much Taiwan values a close relationship with the United States, but also in response to the U.S. delegation that attended the inauguration of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) in May, Huang said. The U.S. delegation was led by former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
The Taiwanese delegation will include Yu’s wife Yang Bao-yu (楊寶玉), Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), Chiayi County Magistrate Chang Hua-kuan (張花冠), National Security Council advisor Tung Chen-yuan (童振源), DPP lawmaker Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃), Kuomintang lawmakers Lu Yu-ling (呂玉玲), Ko Chih-en (柯志恩) and Lin Wei-chou (林為洲), lawmaker Lim Tshiong-tso (林昶佐) of the New Power Party and Chen Yi-chieh (陳怡潔) from the People First Party, according to Huang. [FULL STORY]
