Hsieh Chang-ting

Hsieh Chang-ting - 謝長廷 , 2013

Frank Chang-ting Hsieh ( Chinese  謝長廷  /  谢长廷 , Pinyin Xiè Chángtíng , W.-G. Hsieh Ch'ang T'ing , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Siā Tiông-têng / Chiā Tiông-têng , born  May 18,  1946 in Dadaocheng , Datong District , Taipei ) is a Taiwanese politician and served as Prime Minister of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from February 1, 2005 to January 25, 2006 . He is currently his country's diplomatic representative in Japan .

Life

He studied law at Taiwan State University and Kyoto University . He then practiced as a lawyer from 1969 to 1981 . Among other things, he was a defense lawyer in the military trial following the Kaohsiung (or Formosa ) incident in December 1979. From 1981 to 1988 he was a member of the Taipei City Parliament and from 1989 to 1995 the Parliament of the Republic of China, the legislative Yuan . In the election campaign of the presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Peng Ming-min , Hsieh ran for the office of vice president in 1996. The DPP candidates received only 21.1% of the votes against the Kuomintang at the time . He was elected mayor of Kaohsiung City in December 1998 and was re-elected in 2002.

Hsieh was involved in founding the DPP on September 28, 1986. The name of the party goes back to his suggestion. From April to May 2000 he briefly held the party chairmanship, which he took over again from January to May 2008 after Chen Shui-bian resigned after losing the legislative yuan elections.

After resigning from the post of Prime Minister in 2006, he spent a few months in the United States for "recreation." He returned to Taiwan to run for mayor of Taipei in December 2006 , but lost the election to Kuomintang's Hau Lung-pin .

After an internal party election, Hsieh was named the DPP's candidate for the 2008 presidential election in May 2007 , which he lost to Kuomintang candidate Ma Ying-jeou with 41.55% of the vote . After the election defeat, Hsieh declared that he wanted to withdraw from politics entirely. On June 3, 2016, President Tsai Ing-wen appointed him head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Bureau in Tokyo and thus Taiwan's diplomatic representative in Japan.

Hsieh is married to Hsieh-Yu Fang-chih (游 芳枝) and has a son and a daughter with her.

Web links

• Hsieh Chang-ting's Facebook page

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Xie Chang-ting takes over party chairmanship  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Radio Taiwan International , January 14, 2008  
2. ^ Ex-Prime Minister Frank Hsieh appointed as Taiwan's envoy to Japan , Focus Taiwan, June 3, 2016

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Hsieh is the family name here, Changting is the first name.