Kao Cheng-yan () is an activist and founding chair of the

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and a member of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union. He was a

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activist during his student years in the United States. He ran for the

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on a Green Party ticket in 1998 and 2001 but failed to gain a seat. In the 2004 ROC referendum, he debated

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Legislator

You Ching You Ching (; born 20 March 1942) was the Republic of China (Taiwan) representative to Germany. A practicing lawyer since 1978, he obtained his bachelor's degree in law from the National Chengchi University in 1965 and his doctorate from the Unive ...

. In November 2019, Kao was ranked second on Green Party Taiwan's party list of legislative candidates contesting the 2020 elections. He opposes the completion of the

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, leading the campaign to gather more than 120,000 signatures in order to add a referendum to the national ballot. His opposition to nuclear power dates back to 1979. Professionally, he is a professor in

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(

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) at the

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