1. Annette Lu Hsiu-lien is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer.
15 Facts About Annette Lu
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Annette Lu announced her intentions to run for the presidency on 6 March 2007, but withdrew to support eventual DPP nominee Frank Hsieh.
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Annette Lu has both Hoklo and Hakka ancestry, with her paternal ancestor arriving in Taiwan from Nanjing County, Zhangzhou, Fujian in 1740.
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Annette Lu has one older brother and three older sisters.
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Annette Lu renounced her KMT membership, joined the tangwai movement, and worked in the staff of Formosa Magazine.
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Annette Lu was tried, found guilty of violent sedition, and sentenced by a military court to 12 years in prison.
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Annette Lu was named by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience, and, due to international pressure, coupled with the work of Ma Ying-jeou and Jerome A Cohen, was released in 1985, after approximately five and a half years in jail.
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Annette Lu was awarded the World Peace Corps Mission's World Peace Prize in 2001.
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Annette Lu was the ROC's first elected vice president to adopt a Western first name.
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Annette Lu remained a DPP member through 2019, and announced in September 2019 that she would contest the 2020 presidential election on behalf of the Formosa Alliance, with Peng Pai-hsien as her running mate.
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Annette Lu's remarks have led state newspapers in mainland China to accuse her of provoking "animosity between the people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits".
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Annette Lu stated that cross-strait relations should be defined as not only between distant relatives, but between near neighbors.
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Annette Lu stressed that there should be neither hatred nor war between Taiwan and Mainland China, and that both sides should pursue peaceful coexistence, industrial cooperation, and cultural exchanges.
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Annette Lu criticized ROC President Ma Ying-jeou for making Taiwan more and more dependent on China.
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Annette Lu reiterated her 1996 Consensus for dealing with the PRC, in which she said Taiwan has been an independent sovereign country since the 1996 ROC presidential election.