Lee Shying-jow or Lee Hsiang-chou is a Taiwanese general and diplomat.
12 Facts About Lee Shying-jow
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Lee Shying-jow is the incumbent Representative to Denmark, and was formerly the 4th Commanding General of the Republic of China Army, 8th Deputy Minister of National Defense, the 15th Director-General of the National Security Bureau and the 2nd Minister of the Veterans Affairs Council.
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Lee Shying-jow later entered the Republic of China Army Preparatory School right after his completion of junior high school at age 15.
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Lee Shying-jow obtained his master's degree from the National Taiwan University, National Chung Hsing University of Taiwan and Georgetown University of the United States.
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Lee Shying-jow served as the Commander of Military Police from 1 June 2009 to 16 May 2011.
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Lee Shying-jow was promoted to General of the ROC Army on 16 May 2011 and appointed as the Vice Chief of the General Staff under Admiral Lin Chen-yi, the then Chief of the General Staff.
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General Lee Shying-jow was appointed to success General Yang Tien-hsiao as the Commanding General of the ROC Army on 16 August 2011.
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In early April 2014, speaking to the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee of the Legislative Yuan, Lee Shying-jow said that if the People's Liberation Army were to invade Taiwan, they need at least four months for assault preparation, thus translated to the amount of advance warning Taiwan needs in such scenario.
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Lee Shying-jow added that Taiwan has already prepared relevant measures with other countries and military reserve would be called in such attack scenario.
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On 28 April 2016, Lee Shying-jow Hsiang-chou was designated to be the new Minister of the Veterans Affairs Council.
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In December 2016, on his way to visit Thailand from Taiwan, Lee Shying-jow was denied stopover entry into Singapore for the purpose of visiting veterans of the Republic of China Armed Forces residing in the small island nation.
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Lee Shying-jow left the Veterans Affairs Council in February 2018, and was appointed Taiwan's representative to Denmark that October.