Wang Yu-chi was the Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan since 28 September 2012 until 16 February 2015, when he resigned over the dropping of espionage charges brought against Chang Hsien-yao.
22 Facts About Wang Yu-chi
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Wang Yu-chi earned his bachelor's degree in law from the National Taiwan University.
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Wang Yu-chi then continued his master's degree in law from Indiana University in the United States.
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In October 2012, after just less than a week after his appointment as the Minister, Wang Yu-chi was tested to identify Chinese leaders from the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China by Tsai Chi-chang, member of the Democratic Progressive Party at the Legislative Yuan.
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Wang Yu-chi only managed to identify Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping, but failed to do so on the other seven leaders.
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In mid April 2013, with the plan for Straits Exchange Foundation branch office establishment in China and its counterpart Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits branch office establishment in Taiwan, Wang Yu-chi said the office will handle trade, consular affairs, cultural exchanges, protection and emergency assistance for Taiwanese residing in China.
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Wang Yu-chi added that at the initial phase, Taiwan will set up three SEF branch offices in China, which are in Beijing, central China and southern China.
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Wang Yu-chi responded that this dispute is between the Philippines and Taiwan.
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Wang Yu-chi further added that the pact is an important components of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement and that every concession the Chinese authorities has made to the Taiwanese business is greater than those concessions made to other foreign countries.
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In end of August 2013, Wang Yu-chi visited Macau, his first visit after taking office as Minister of MAC.
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Wang Yu-chi thanked the Government of Macau for the good treatment and respect he received while being in Macau since his arrival in Macau International Airport.
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Wang Yu-chi visited the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Macau for the first time since the ROC representative office was renamed to TECO, in line with the rest of ROC representative offices around the world, since 19 July 2011.
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In October 2013, in a hotel lobby on the sidelines of the APEC Indonesia 2013 meetings in the Indonesian island of Bali, Wang Yu-chi met with Zhang Zhijun, a ground breaking historical meeting for the first time between leader of Taiwan Affairs Office and leader of Mainland Affairs Council, where the two addressed each other by each's official title.
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The Wang Yu-chi-Zhang meeting marked a good start for normalizing official interactions across the Taiwan Strait.
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On 11 February 2014, Wang Yu-chi met with Zhang in Nanjing, in the first official, high-level, government-to-government contact between the two sides since 1949.
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On 27 February 2014, Wang Yu-chi met with Chen Deming, the President of ARATS, in Taipei.
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Wang Yu-chi said he looked forward to closely working with Chen.
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Chen said that the recent Wang Yu-chi-Zhang Meeting in Nanjing would bring a better cross-strait relations.
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Wang Yu-chi stated in March 2013 that his view on cross-strait relations is although both Taiwan and mainland China share a close relationship in terms of culture and ethnicity, in terms of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, the two have contrasting stances.
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In early May 2013, Wang Yu-chi made a statement that if the PRC is willing to remove all of the missiles pointing at Taiwan voluntarily, it would be a gesture of goodwill which Beijing could show to Taipei, because it doesn't need cross-strait negotiation to carry out, only willingness on the part of mainland China.
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Wang Yu-chi added that he wished to see exchange visits by leaders from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in which both parties address each other using their formal official capacity.
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In mid June 2013, Wang Yu-chi stressed the ROC government stance that the One-China policy they have been embracing is the Republic of China.