Koh Se-kai (; born 1934 in

Changhua County Changhua County ( Mandarin Pinyin: ''Zhānghuà Xiàn''; Wade-Giles: ''Chang¹-hua⁴ Hsien⁴''; Hokkien POJ: ''Chiang-hòa-koān'' or ''Chiong-hòa-koān'') is the smallest county on the main island of Taiwan by area, and the fourth small ...

) is a

Taiwanese Taiwanese may refer to: * Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien * Something from or related to Taiwan ( Formosa) * Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan * Han Taiwanese, the Han people of Taiwan * Taiwanese people, ...

historian, politician, and

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

. He is an important leader of the Taiwan independence movement. In 2004, Koh was appointed to be the Republic of China’s top representative to

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. By June 2008, Koh had retired.

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1934 births 20th-century Taiwanese historians Taiwan independence activists Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University alumni University of Tokyo alumni Waseda University alumni Living people Politicians of the Republic of China on Taiwan from Changhua County Taiwan Independence Party chairpersons Representatives of Taiwan to Japan Taiwanese people of Hoklo descent {{Taiwan-diplomat-stub