23 Facts About Chiu Tai-san

Chiu Tai-san is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician.

Chiu Tai-san was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2004.

Chiu Tai-san resigned in 2016, and was appointed the minister of Justice later that year.

Chiu Tai-san stepped down from the justice ministry in 2018, and served on the National Security Council until 2019.

In 2021, Chiu Tai-san was appointed minister of the Mainland Affairs Council.

Chiu Tai-san then worked as a prosecutor for the district courts of Tainan and Hsinchiu.

Chiu Tai-san later was a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

Chiu Tai-san was elected to the Legislative Yuan as a representative of Taichung County in the 1998 elections.

Chiu Tai-san left the MAC in March 2005 and declared his intention to run for the Taichung County magistracy.

Chiu Tai-san was challenged in a party primary by National Assemblyman Lin Feng-hsi.

Chiu Tai-san defeated Lin in first round of the primary, which consisted of telephone surveys run by three separate different companies.

Chiu Tai-san launched another bid for the Taichung County magistracy in 2010, and again lost to Huang Chung-sheng.

However, Chiu Tai-san did not return to public service until 2014, when Cheng Wen-tsan appointed him deputy mayor of Taoyuan.

In March 2016, Chiu Tai-san resigned his Taoyuan City Government position to serve as a policy advisor to president-elect Tsai Ing-wen.

The next month, Chiu Tai-san was named the Minister of Justice in Lin Chuan's incoming cabinet.

Shortly after assuming his post as Minister of Justice, Chiu Tai-san stated that Taiwan would maintain the death penalty.

Chiu Tai-san supported legislator Tsai Yi-yu's August 2016 proposal to eliminate the Special Investigation Division.

In February 2017, Chiu Tai-san announced that the general public would be able to participate in committees convened to review the work of prosecutors.

Chiu Tai-san left office in July 2018, and was named to the National Security Council.

Chiu Tai-san resigned from the National Security Council on 2 April 2019, shortly after the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office charged him with influence peddling.

In December 2019, Chiu Tai-san was appointed to lead a Democratic Progressive Party task force convened to combat electoral fraud during the January 2020 elections.

Chiu Tai-san later returned to the National Security Council as a consultant, serving until February 2021, when he was named leader of the Mainland Affairs Council.

Chiu Tai-san formally succeeded Chen Ming-tong as minister of the Mainland Affairs Council on 23 February 2021.