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Frank Wu (journalist)
Wu Feng-shan (; born 24 January 1945), also known by his English name Frank Wu, is a Taiwanese journalist and politician. Wu worked for the ''Independence Evening Post'' between 1968 and 1994, then led the Public Television Service from 1998 to 2004. He was twice elected to the National Assembly and was a member of the Central Election Commission before serving as a minister without portfolio within the Executive Yuan from 2006 to 2007. Wu sat on the Control Yuan from 2008 to 2014, and was named chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation in 2024. Media career Wu worked for the ''Independence Evening Post'' from 1968 to 1994, serving successively as chief editor, then president, of the publication. During his tenure with the paper, Wu helped arrange the 1982 visit of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn to Taiwan. Shortly after the end of martial law in Taiwan in 1987, Wu sent Hsu Lu and Lee Yung-te to China. The pair became the first Taiwanese journalists to visit China. Between 1998 and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straits Exchange Foundation
The Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF; ; often abbreviated as 海基會) is a semiofficial organization set up by the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to handle civil and business matters with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Though technically a private organization, it is funded by the government and under the supervision of the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan. Its role is effectively to function as the ''de facto'' embassy to the PRC, as a means of avoiding acknowledgement of the PRC's statehood status. Its counterpart in the PRC is the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS). History Business and civil activities across Taiwan Strait resumed when the armed conflict between the two side ceased after the end of the Cold War. Due to the complexity of the political and legal status of cross-strait relations and lack of contact between the two opposing governments during the conflict, the ROC government had to create an inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Television Service
Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation (PTS Foundation/Public Television Service Foundation, ), also called Public Television Service (PTS, ), is the first independent public broadcasting institution in Taiwan, which broadcasts the Public Television Service Taiwan. Although first proposed in 1980, it was not until 1984 that the executive-level Government Information Office (GIO), which regulates mass media activities and serves as the government press bureau, attempted to create a separate entity that would produce public interest programs for broadcast on the then-existing three terrestrial networks. Nevertheless, the Executive Yuan (one of Taiwan's five branches of government or ''yuans'', and the one responsible for the GIO) later shifted the responsibility to the preexisting Chinese Public Television Broadcasting Development Fund. It was not until the early 1990s, following the lifting of martial law, that legislative efforts striving to create a public television station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One-China Policy
''One China'' is a phrase describing the relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) based on mainland China, and the Republic of China (ROC) based on the Taiwan Area. "One China" asserts that there is only one ''de jure'' Chinese nation, despite the '' de facto'' division between the two rival governments in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War. The term may refer, in alphabetical order, to one of the following: * The ''One China policy'' refers to a United States policy of strategic ambiguity regarding Taiwan. In a 1972 joint communiqué with the PRC, the United States "acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China" and "does not challenge that position." It reaffirms the U.S. interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question. The United States has formal relations with the PRC, recognizes the PRC as the sole legal government of China, and simultaneously main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Taiwanese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 18 March 2000 to elect the President of Taiwan, president and Vice President of the Republic of China, vice president. With a voter turnout of 83%, Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were elected president and vice president respectively with a slight plurality. This election ended more than half a century of Kuomintang (KMT) rule on the island, during which it had governed as a one-party state since the Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan, retreat of the government from the Chinese mainland during the closing stages of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. This was also the first time in Chinese history that a ruling political party peacefully transferred power to an opposition party under a democratic system. The nominees included the then-current vice president Lien Chan for the KMT, former provincial governor James Soong as an independent candidate (upon his loss of the KMT n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Teng-hui
Lee Teng-hui (; pinyin: ''Lǐ Dēnghuī''; 15 January 192330 July 2020) was a Taiwanese politician and agricultural scientist who served as the fourth president of the Republic of China, president of the Taiwan, Republic of China (Taiwan) under Constitution of the Republic of China, the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He was the first president to be born in Taiwan, the last to be 1990 Taiwanese presidential election, indirectly elected and the first to be 1996 Taiwanese presidential election, directly elected. Before entering politics, Lee was an agricultural scientist who earned a master's degree from Iowa State University and a PhD from Cornell University in the United States. During his presidency, Lee oversaw the end of Martial law in Taiwan, martial law and the full History of Taiwan (1945–present), democratization of the ROC, advocated the Taiwanese localization movement, and initiated foreign policy agenda to gain allies all o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Taiwanese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 23 March 1996. It was the first Direct election, direct presidential election in Taiwan, officially the Republic of China. In the previous eight elections the president and vice president had been chosen in a ballot of the deputies of the National Assembly (Republic of China), National Assembly, in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of China, 1947 constitution. These were the first free and direct elections in the history of Taiwan. Lee Teng-hui was re-elected President of the Republic of China, President and Lien Chan as Vice President. Lee stood as the candidate of the ruling Kuomintang. He won a majority of 54% of the votes cast. His election followed Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, missile tests by the People's Republic of China (PRC). These were an attempt to intimidate the Taiwanese electorate and discourage them from supporting Lee, however the tactic backfired. Voter turnout was 76.0%. Candidates The ruling Kuomintan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lien Chan
Lien Chan ( zh, t=連戰, w=, p=, poj=; born August 27, 1936) is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician. He was the chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 1990 to 1993, premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, vice president of the Republic of China from 1996 to 2000, and was the chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 2000 to 2005, apart from various ministerial posts he had also held. After graduating from National Taiwan University, Lien earned a master's degree and his PhD from the University of Chicago in the United States. He ran for the President of the Republic of China on behalf of the Kuomintang twice in 2000 and 2004, but both lost to Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party. Upon his retirement as KMT Chairman in August 2005, he was given the title Honorary Chairman of the KMT. Lien is highly credited after holding a 2005 Pan–Blue visits to mainland China, groundbreaking visit to mainland China in his capacity as the Chairman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Shui-bian
Chen Shui-bian ( zh, t=陳水扁; born 12 October 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the fifth president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), ending the Kuomintang's (KMT) 55 years of continuous rule in Taiwan. He is sometimes referred to by the nickname A-Bian (). A lawyer, Chen entered politics in 1980 during the Kaohsiung Incident as a member of the Tangwai movement and was elected to the Taipei City Council in 1981. In 1985, as the editor of the weekly pro-democracy magazine ''Neo-Formosa'', he was jailed for libel following publication of an article critical of Elmer Fung, a college philosophy professor who was later elected a New Party legislator. After being released, Chen helped found the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 1986 and was elected a member of the Legislative Yuan in 1989, and Mayor of Taipei in 1994. Chen won the 2000 Republic of China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Taiwanese Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 20 March 2004. A consultative referendum took place on the same day regarding relations with the People's Republic of China. President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu of the Democratic Progressive Party were re-elected by a narrow margin of 0.22% over a combined opposition ticket of Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan and People First Party Chairman James Soong. Lien and Soong refused to concede and unsuccessfully challenged the results. Formation of the tickets Democratic Progressive Party In the months leading up to December 2003, there was speculation as to whether President Chen would choose Vice President Annette Lu as his running mate. Polls had consistently showed that Chen would do better with another candidate such as Taipei county administrator Su Tseng-chang or Kaohsiung mayor Frank Hsieh, and many of the DPP's most popular lawmakers had petitioned Chen to seriously consider another candidate. After several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Yung-te
Lee Yung-te (; born 30 May 1955) is a Taiwanese politician. He served as the Minister of the Hakka Affairs Council from March 2005 to March 2008 and was reappointed to the position in 2016, remaining in office until 2020. He subsequently served as culture minister from 2020 to 2023, then became chairman of the Central News Agency. Education and early career Lee obtained his bachelor's degree in politics from National Chengchi University in 1976 and master's degree in communication from Stanford University in the United States in 1991. In 1987, while working for the ''Independence Evening Post'', Lee and colleague Hsu Lu became the first Taiwanese journalists to visit China after martial law in Taiwan had been lifted, and the Chinese Civil War had ended. Political career On 15 March 2005, Lee was appointed acting chairman of Hakka Affairs Council. During his tenure, he organized the first Hakka Language Certification Exam in Taiwan. He also composed the first Hakka musical, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martial Law In Taiwan
Martial law in Taiwan () refers to the periods in the history of Taiwan after World War II, during control by the Republic of China Armed Forces of the Kuomintang-led regime. The term is specifically used to refer to the over 38-year-long consecutive martial law period between 20 May 1949 and 14 July 1987, which was qualified as "the longest imposition of martial law by a regime anywhere in the world" at that time (having since been surpassed by Brunei). With the outbreak of Chinese Civil War, the "Declaration of Martial Law in Taiwan Province" () was enacted by Chen Cheng, who served as the chairman of Taiwan Provincial Government and commander of Taiwan Garrison Command, on 19 May 1949. This order was effective within the territory of Taiwan Province (including Island of Taiwan and Penghu). The provincial martial law order was then superseded by an amendment of the "Declaration of Nationwide Martial Law", which was enacted by the central government after the amendment r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
