Chiang Chi-chen | |
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江啟臣 | |
.jpg) Chiang in 2024 | |
| 16th Vice President of the Legislative Yuan | |
| Assumed office 1 February 2024 | |
| President | Han Kuo-yu |
| Preceded by | Tsai Chi-chang |
| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| Assumed office 1 February 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Shyu Jong-shyong(Taichung County 4th district) |
| Constituency | Taichung VIII |
| 10th Chairman of the Kuomintang | |
| In office 9 March 2020 – 5 October 2021 | |
| Secretary General | William Tseng Lee Chien-lung |
| Preceded by | Lin Rong-te (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Eric Chu |
| Minority Leader of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 14 June 2018 – 1 February 2019 | |
| Speaker | Su Jia-chyuan |
| Preceded by | Lin Te-fu |
| Succeeded by | William Tseng |
| 27thDirector-General of the Government Information Office | |
| In office 24 December 2010 – 1 May 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Wu Den-yih |
| Preceded by | Su Jun-pin [zh] |
| Succeeded by | Philip Yang [zh] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1972-03-02)2 March 1972 (age 53) |
| Party | Kuomintang |
| Education | National Chengchi University (BA) University of Pittsburgh (MA) University of South Carolina (PhD) |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | Republic of China Marine Corps |
| Years of service | 1994–1996 |
| Rank | Corporal |
Chiang Chi-chen (Chinese:江啟臣;pinyin:Jiāng Qǐchén;Wade–Giles:Chiang1 Chʻi3-chʻên;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Kang Khé-sîn; born 2 March 1972), also known by his English nameJohnny Chiang, is a Taiwanesepolitical scientist and politician who has served as thevice president of the Legislative Yuan since 2024.
Chiang served as an associate professor inSoochow University before his political career. He was the penultimate Director-General of theGovernment Information Office from 2010 to 2011, a post he resigned to become a member of theLegislative Yuan in which he has served since 2012. In March 2020, he was elected theChairman of the Kuomintang and assumed office on 9 March until he was succeeded byEric Chu on 5 October 2021. Chiang took office as vice president of the Legislative Yuan on 1 February 2024.
Chiang was born inFengyuan,Taichung, on March 2, 1972. His father, Chiang Hai-chuan, was a farmer.[1] He was raised by his grandparents in a mountainous area in rural Fengyuan; his grandfather was a village chief.[2] Because he and his grandparents were speakers of Japanese, Chiang did not learnTaiwanese Mandarin until primary school.[3] He is ofHakkaTeochew descent.[4]
After graduating first in his class fromTaichung Municipal First Senior High School, where he was atrack and field athlete,[3] Chiang studied diplomacy atNational Chengchi University and graduated with aBachelor of Arts (B.A.) in 1994.[5] He then was selected for theRepublic of China Marine Corps and served in the101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion during hiscompulsory military service.[3] He was honorably discharged from the Army's special force with the rank ofcorporal.
After completing his military service, Chiang pursued graduate studies in the United States, where he earned a master's degree ininternational relations andpolitical science from theUniversity of Pittsburgh in 1998,[6] then earned hisPh.D. in international relations from theUniversity of South Carolina in 2002.[7] His doctoral dissertation, completed under political science professor Donald J. Puchala, was titled, "Globalization and The Role of the State in Contemporary Political Economy: Taiwan and India in the 1980s and 1990s".[8]
After receiving his doctorate, Chiang was a lecturer at the University of South Carolina from January 2002 to May 2002. He then returned to Taiwan and became an associate researcher at theTaiwan Institute of Economic Research and anassistant professor atTaipei University of Marine Technology from 2002 to 2003. From February 2003 to June 2003, he was a professor of diplomacy at National Chengchi University before joining the faculty ofSoochow University in July 2003 as an assistant professor of political science.[9] He was promoted to anassociate professor there in February 2007.[10][11]
He was named the head of theGovernment Information Office in 2010.[9] When Chiang was selected as aKuomintang candidate for the legislature in April 2011,[12] he resigned the GIO position and was replaced byPhilip Yang [zh].[13] Chiang was one of five former GIO officials to appear on the ballot.[14] He won election in 2012, and again in 2016. Chiang was chosen as one of five conveners of the Legislative Yuan's constitutional amendment committee in 2015.[15] He shared foreign and national defense committee convener duties withLiu Shih-fang in 2016.[16] Chiang announced his intention to contest the Taichung mayoralty in October 2017, becoming the second Kuomintang politician afterLu Shiow-yen to declare interest in the position.[17] It was reported in February 2018 that Chiang had narrowly finished second to Lu in three different public opinion polls that served as the Kuomintang's Taichung mayoral primary.[18] Chiang declared his candidacy for the2020 Kuomintang chairmanship election on 25 January 2020, ten days afterWu Den-yih resigned the position.[19] Chiang defeatedHau Lung-pin in the leadership election, held on 7 March 2020.[20][21] Chiang took office as Kuomintang chairman on 9 March 2020.[22][23]
In March 2021, KMT chairman Johnny Chiang rejected the "one country, two systems" as a feasible model for Taiwan, citing Beijing's response toprotests in Hong Kong as well as the value that Taiwanese place in political freedoms.[24] In September of that year, Chiang lost his bid to retain the chairmanship,finishing third behindEric Chu andChang Ya-chung.
Chang won his fourth consecutive legislative term in 2024, and was subsequently electedVice President of the11th Legislative Yuan.[25][26]
Chiang is married to Liu Tzu-ling, the daughter of former legislatorLiu Shen-liang. He has two children.[27] One of his uncles isAntonio Chiang [zh], a formerNational Security Council secretary-general.[28]
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| Preceded by Su Jun-pin [zh] | Director General of theGovernment Information Office 2010–2011 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Chairman of the Kuomintang 2020–2021 | Succeeded by |
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