14 Facts About Chiu Kuo-cheng

Chiu Kuo-cheng is a Taiwanese politician and retired general of the ROC Army.

Chiu Kuo-cheng was the Minister of National Defense from 23 February 2021 to 20 May 2024 and the Director-General of the National Security Bureau from 24 July 2019 to 22 February 2021.

Chiu Kuo-cheng served as the Chief of General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces from 1 December 2016 to 28 April 2017, and was a former Vice Minister of National Defense for Armaments.

Chiu Kuo-cheng earned a master's degree from the Army Command and Staff College of National Defense University in 1978 and studied at the South African Military Academy in 1981 before completing studies at the War College of National Defense University in 1984.

Chiu Kuo-cheng was the president of National Defense University in Taoyuan from 1 September 2012 to 31 July 2014.

Chiu Kuo-cheng was Vice Minister of National Defense for Armaments from August 2014 to January 2015.

Chiu Kuo-cheng was Commander of the ROC Army from January 2015 through November 2016.

Chiu Kuo-cheng was appointed to the position of Chief of the General Staff of the ROC Armed Forces on 24 November 2016, upon the retirement of General Yen Teh-fa, and assumed this post on 1 December of that year.

Chiu Kuo-cheng took office as head of the Veterans Affairs Council on 26 February 2018, succeeding Lee Shying-jow.

Chiu Kuo-cheng succeeded Peng Sheng-chu at the National Security Bureau on 24 July 2019.

Chiu Kuo-cheng formally assumed the role on 23 February 2021.

Chiu Kuo-cheng rejected to speak Taiwanese, nor accepted the interpreter's real-time service at site, but brought the deputy minister Zong-hsiao Li as his own interpreter, and insisted in the 3-way translation pattern sentence by sentence.

Chen later apologized to the public for the good intention of practicing the national language law being turned into a linguistic communication tragedy, and condemned Chiu Kuo-cheng for "bullying", but Chiu Kuo-cheng denied the allegation and claimed that a language is a tool of communication.

The parliamentary interpretation service were temporarily suspended afterwards pending on better communication in the future - consequently the parliament members and media editorials such as Kuan Bi-ling and Taipei Times commented that Language is not just a tool of communication as Chiu Kuo-cheng said, but an identity of feelings and culture.