KMT names envoy to Washington, chairman to visit U.S. in May
ROC Central News Agency
04/06/2022 06:05 PM
Taipei, April 6 (CNA) Eric Chu (朱立倫), the chairman of Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang (KMT), named Alexander Huang (黃介正) as the party's envoy to the United States on Wednesday, while announcing his plan to visit the U.S. in May.
Huang, currently the chief of KMT's Department of International Affairs, will head the KMT's representative office in Washington, D.C. while Huang's deputy Eric Huang (黃裕鈞) will serve as the party's deputy representative to the U.S., Chu said during a KMT standing committee meeting.
While Alexander Huang is the top representative to the U.S., Eric Huang will be the one stationed in Washington permanently representing the opposition party, according to Chu.
Meanwhile, Chu said he is planning to visit the U.S. with his deputy Andrew Hsia (夏立言) sometime next month, though more details of the upcoming trip are still under planning.
A KMT source told CNA that Chu will be making stops in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco in his upcoming American trip, during when he will meet with U.S. officials and congresspersons, and pay visits to think tanks and schools.
Chu will also inaugurate the KMT's representative office in Washington, D.C., the source added.
Huang is a professor and was the director of the Institute of Strategic Studies and the Institute of American Studies at New Taipei-based Tamkang University.
Huang served as deputy minister of the Mainland Affairs Council in charge of China affairs during the previous Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government from 2003 to 2004, and has worked closely with consecutive governments on foreign and security policy matters for decades.
(By Wang Cheng-chung and Joseph Yeh)
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