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Jaw was elected to theTaipei City Council in 1981 and served until 1986, when he was elected to theLegislative Yuan.[6] In June 1991, he began serving as head of theEnvironmental Protection Administration (EPA).[5][7] In 1992, against the wishes of his party, the Kuomintang, Jaw resigned from the EPA to seek reelection to the legislature.[8] Despite the party's refusal to support him, Jaw won a record number of votes.[8][9] He later became a member of theNew Kuomintang Alliance and the Breakfast Club, set up in opposition to party chairmanLee Teng-hui.[8][10] In August 1993, he and other members of the New Kuomintang Alliance split from the Kuomintang and co-founded the pro-unificationNew Party.[11][12]
In 1994, Jaw resigned his legislative seat to contest to the Taipei City mayoralty on behalf of the New Party,[13][14] but lost toDemocratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidateChen Shui-bian.[9][15] Although thepan-Blue forces gained the majority of the votes overall, the vote was split between Jaw and Kuomintang candidateHuang Ta-chou, granting Chen victory in the election.[16]
Jaw announced his intention to retire from politics in July 1996.[17] Soon after announcing his withdrawal from politics in 1996, Jaw founded UFO Radio.[18] He also ownedNews98 [zh] and served as its president.[19][20] In 2006, Jaw acquired theBroadcasting Corporation of China.[21] He has also hosted his own radio and television programs.[22][23][24]
In 2004, Jaw was invited to debate thereferendum on cross-strait relations.[25] He was named an adviser to Kuomintang candidates during the 2010 election cycle.[26] In 2017, Jaw reiterated that he was an independent.[27]
Jaw announced his interest about returning to politics in February 2021, disclosing that he had met withHan Kuo-yu in September 2020, who told Jaw that he should return to the Kuomintang and run for the party leadership.[28][29] The restoration of Jaw's party membership was announced on 3 February 2021,[30] and he subsequently expressed interest in contesting the2021 party leadership election,[30] as well as the primary for the2024 presidential election cycle.[31][32] Jaw stated on 28 April 2021 that he was no longer considering a run for the Kuomintang chairmanship.[33][34]
Jaw is a staunch supporter ofunification with China,[36] albeit not under the People's Republic of China,[37] and believes unification is not possible under the current circumstances.[38] He opposesTaiwanese independence, saying there would be no war across theTaiwan Strait as long as Taiwan did not formally declare independence. He believes the current focus ofcross-strait relations should be peaceful development, and that it was for the next generation in both sides to see which political system "would bring the greatest happiness to the people."[38]
Jaw is fluent inTaiwanese Hokkien.[1] He is married to Liang Lei.[39] Jaw's younger brother Chao Shao-wei has served as president of the Taipei Artist Agency Association.[40] Jaw andI-Mei Foods CEO Louis Ko were classmates in university and have remained friends despite disagreements on issues such as importing pork from the United States.[41]
^Chang, Yun-ping (24 August 2004)."Disaffected Shen feels the blues and makes the right polling moves".Taipei Times.Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved11 December 2016.Since then,Shen has been sharply criticized by pan-green supporters, who have denounced him for being a DPP apostate and for making connections with pro-blue figures such as independent LegislatorSisy Chen -- also a DPP defector -- and UFO Radio chairman Jaw Shaw-kong, a unification fundamentalist.
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