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Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician who has been serving as the president of the Republic of China since 2016. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party , Tsai is the first female president of Taiwan. She served as chair of the DPP from 2020 to 2022, and also previously from 2008 to 2012 and 2014 to 2018.Tsai grew up in Taipei and studied law and international trade, and later became a law professor at Soochow University School of Law and National Chengchi University after earning an LLB from National Taiwan University and an LLM from Cornell Law School. She later studied law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with her thesis titled "Unfair trade practices and safeguard actions", and was awarded a Ph.D. in law from the University of London. In 1993, as an independent , she was appointed to a series of governmental positions, including trade negotiator for WTO affairs, by the then ruling party Kuomintang and was one of the chief drafters of the special state-to-state relations doctrine under the President Lee Teng-hui.During the first term of Chen Shui-bian's presidency, Tsai served as Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council. She joined the DPP in 2004 and served briefly as a DPP-nominated at-large member of the Legislative Yuan, and was then appointed as Vice Premier under Premier Su Tseng-chang until the cabinet's mass resignation in 2007. Following the DPP's defeat in the presidential election in 2008, she was elected as party chair of the DPP, but she resigned when the party lost the presidential election in 2012.Tsai ran for New Taipei City mayorship in the 2010 municipal elections but was defeated by the KMT candidate, Eric Chu. In April 2011, Tsai became the first female nominated by a major party as a presidential candidate in the history of Taiwan after defeating her former superior, Su Tseng-chang, in the DPP's primary by a slight margin. In the fifth presidential election in 2012, she was defeated by the then-president Ma Ying-jeou, but she won her first term of presidency in the 2016 presidential election by a landslide in a rematch against Chu. In the 2020 election, she was re-elected as president with an increased share of the vote. Tsai is the second president from the Democratic Progressive Party, and the first popularly elected president to have never served as Mayor of Taipei.

Tsai was named one of Time's most influential people of 2020 and was #9 on Forbes's most powerful women and #2 female politician after Kamala Harris of 2021. Internationally, Tsai has been praised for her response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for standing up to pressure from the Government of the People's Republic of China. Tsai resigned as head of the Democratic People's Party in November 2022, citing her party's poor performance in local elections earlier that month. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. August 1956
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Famous Tsai Ing-wen Quotes

“I also hope that Mainland China does not misinterpret or misjudge the current (cross-strait) situation, or think that Taiwanese will bow to such pressure. In a democratic society, this kind of pressure is felt by all. No administration in Taiwan can make a decision that runs counter to public opinion.”

Tsai Ing-wen

President urges talks with Beijing: report, Focus Taiwan, 1, October 5, 2016, 6 October 2016 http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201610050021.aspx,

“Many people think the DPP does not welcome Chinese tourists. This is definitely not true.”

Tsai Ing-wen

DPP candidate: Quotas for Chinese tourists won't be cut if elected, Focus Taiwan, 1, September 10, 2015, 12 September 2015 http://focustaiwan.tw/news/acs/201509100021.aspx,

“Politics should be as simple as possible; it should respond directly to the needs of the people, it should help to solve the problems for the people and this is what I want to do for Taiwan.”

Tsai Ing-wen

Tsai vows ‘new age’ at opening event, Taipei Times, 1, October 19, 2015, 19 October 2015 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2015/10/19/2003630398,

“Taiwan is the Republic of China, the Republic of China is Taiwan.”

Tsai Ing-wen

Source: Taiwan is not Republic of China, Taipei Times, 1, January 26, 2014, 26 March 2014 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2014/01/26/2003582152,

“I would like to stress that, we would be happy to see normal cross-strait exchanges based on equality and dignity, openness and transparency, and no political talks.”

Tsai Ing-wen

Tsai sees ‘manipulation’ in play, Taipei Times, 1, November 5, 2015, 5 November 2015 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2015/11/05/2003631718,

“People feel anxious, especially when we have to wonder whether the president, Taiwan's democratically elected president, will be addressed as president. If he (Ma Ying-jeou) cannot even defend his own title, what can he defend for us?”

Tsai Ing-wen

Taiwan Protesters Trap Chinese Envoy in Hotel, The Washington Post, A12, November 6, 2008, 20 March 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110504690.html,

“If (Mainland) China's dream is a dream of democracy, Taiwan will provide all needed assistance in the process of realizing that dream.”

Tsai Ing-wen

Liu Xiaobo's dream should be China's dream: Taiwan's Tsai, Focus Taiwan, 1, July 13, 2017, 14 July 2017 http://focustaiwan.tw/news/acs/201707130028.aspx,

“I am saddened to see these scenes of violence against unarmed protesters (in Hong Kong) and hope that Taiwan can continue to serve as a beacon of democracy for those who seek freedom.”

Tsai Ing-wen

Taiwan president condemns Hong Kong authorities for firing at protesters, Taiwan News, 1, 11 November 2019, 12 November 2019 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3814795,

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