Lien Chan

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Lien Chan

Lien Chan ( Chinese  連戰 , Pinyin Lián Zhàn ) (born August 27, 1936 in Xi'an , Republic of China , today: People's Republic of China ) is a national Chinese politician of the Kuomintang .

Life

Lien Zhan was born in mainland China but has family roots in Tainan , Taiwan.

Lien was Prime Minister from 1993 to 1997 and Vice President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1996 to 2000 under President Lee Teng-hui . In 2000 he ran himself in the presidential elections and achieved only third place with 23% of the votes behind Chen Shui-bian of the DPP and the independent candidate James Soong . As a result, he became party leader of the Kuomintang, which nominated him again in 2004 as a presidential candidate. In alliance with James Soong as a candidate for the vice-presidency, he was extremely narrowly defeated by incumbent Chen Shui-bian with 49.89% of the vote.

On April 26, 2005, Lien, head of a 70-strong delegation, went on an eight-day visit to the People's Republic of China , where he met with President Hu Jintao , among others . The aim of the visit was to improve relations between the then opposition Kuomintang in Taiwan and the leadership of the People's Republic of China. Lien later made further visits to mainland China.

On July 16, 2005, Lien was replaced by the future President Ma Ying-jeou as chairman of the Kuomintang. The party then appointed him honorary chairman.

On December 9, 2010, Lien was to be awarded the Confucius Peace Prize. He was to receive this for his work for the reconciliation between China and Taiwan. However, Lien was not personally present at the award ceremony. His office said it had not been officially informed of the price. The Confucius Peace Prize was awarded for the first time. The Chinese government states that the award of this new award is intended to give the 1.3 billion Chinese "a bigger voice on world peace". The overwhelming number of Western countries regard the award as a “protest award”, which was donated as a protest on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo .

Web links

Commons : Lien Chan  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Jean-Pierre Cabestan: Lien Chan , Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, Vol. 4, pp. 322–327 (short biography, English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Taiwan opposition leader in China , BBC News, April 26, 2005
  2. ↑ China's Confucius peace prize has chaotic launch as winner's office says he was not notified , guardian.co.uk, December 9, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Lien, Chan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lián, Zhàn (Pinyin); 連戰 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Xi'an , Republic of China , today: People's Republic of China