Tsai marks three months in office

SEF appointment expected soon

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-08-20
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – President Tsai Ing-wen marked the end of her third month in office Saturday by telling journalists that “solving problems” was her administration’s main task and that maintaining the status quo in relations with China was important.
Tsai, her vice president Chen Chien-jen, and the Executive Yuan team headed by Premier Lin Chuan all took office on May 20 as a result of the landslide victory in the January 16 presidential elections.

To mark the occasion, the president invited representatives of the media to tea Saturday afternoon.

She said she would name a new chairman for the Straits Exchange Foundation before the end of the month. Names as varied as former Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng and People First Party Chairman James Soong have been mentioned by the media, but official sources have not given any indication of Tsai’s thinking.

Cross-straits relations would be coherent, predictable and continuous under the existing constitutional order, she said.     [FULL  STORY]