Wu Rong-i (; born 15 December 1939) is a Taiwanese politician. Wu was the Vice Premier in 2005–2006., and now serves as senior advisor to

Tsai Ing-wen Tsai Ing-wen (; born 31 August 1956) is a Taiwanese politician serving as president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 2016. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Tsai is the first female president of Taiwan. She served as ...

, current

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, and as Chairman of Taiwania Capital Management Corporation, the investment arm of Taiwan.

Education

In 1962 and 1965, Wu received his B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...

. Afterward, he obtained his doctoral degree in economics from

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Work

From 1992 to 1993, Wu served as Commissioner and Member of the

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. He became Director and President of the

Taiwan Institute of Economic Research Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER, ) is an incorporated non-profit research institute in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. History Established on 1 September 1976, it was the first independent academic research institute in Taiwan. ...

from 1993 until 2005, and from 2005 onwards he was Vice Premier of the

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of Taiwan. From 2001 to 2005, Wu was President and Chairman of

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. He has also served as Chairman of Taiwan Brain Trust and

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, and as Advisor to the Taiwan delegation to the

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Ministerial and Leaders' Meetings.

Cross-strait relations

In October 2005, Wu said that

Chinese unification Chinese unification, also known as the Cross-Strait unification or Chinese reunification, is the potential unification of territories currently controlled, or claimed, by the People's Republic of China ("China" or "Mainland China") and the ...

is highly unlikely to happen during his lifetime unless

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uses force. However, he considers Mainland China as a big brother, and wish to take the opportunity for Taiwanese to invest in the mainland and have peaceful relation with them. In early October 2013 during the cross-strait peace forum in

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in which attended by officials from the

Communist Party of China The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...

Pan-Blue Coalition The pan-Blue coalition, pan-Blue force or pan-Blue groups is a political coalition in the Republic of China (Taiwan) consisting of the Kuomintang (KMT), People First Party (PFP), New Party (CNP), Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU), and Young ...

and

Pan-Green Coalition The pan-Green coalition, pan-Green force or pan-Green groups is a nationalist political coalition in Taiwan (Republic of China), consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP), Taiwan Solidarity Union (T ...

, Wu proposed the idea that Taiwan and Mainland China represent an "allegiance of brotherhood".

References

Living people 1939 births Political office-holders in the Republic of China on Taiwan Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) alumni Politicians of the Republic of China on Taiwan from Kaohsiung National Taiwan University alumni Fulbright alumni {{Taiwan-politician-stub

Education

Work

Cross-strait relations

See also

References