{"id":4445,"date":"2023-04-28T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2025-02-04T23:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:47:31","slug":"the-future-of-us-taiwan-relations-a-conversation-with-representative-bi-khim-hsiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/2023\/04\/28\/the-future-of-us-taiwan-relations-a-conversation-with-representative-bi-khim-hsiao\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A Conversation with Representative Bi-khim Hsiao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Friday, April 14, 2023, at 9:30 AM PT,<\/strong> the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Representative Bi-khim Hsiao for a public conversation with JSIS Professor James Lin to discuss the future of US-Taiwan Relations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A Conversation with Representative Bi-khim Hsiao\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fFR3JFVxPGc?start=1042&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4446 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/Untitled-design-e1681151301240-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/Untitled-design-e1681151301240-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/Untitled-design-e1681151301240-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/Untitled-design-e1681151301240-375x220.png 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/Untitled-design-e1681151301240-750x441.png 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/09\/Untitled-design-e1681151301240.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Representative <strong>Bi-khim Hsiao<\/strong> assumed her position as Taiwan\u2019s Representative to the United States in July 2020, after serving as a Senior Adviser to the President at the National Security Council of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Hsiao previously served four terms in the Taiwan Legislature, representing overseas citizens for the first term, and then the constituents of Taipei City and Hualien County through different terms. For many years she was ranking member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and previously the chair of the USA Caucus in the Legislative Yuan.<\/p>\n<p>She began her political career serving as Director of the Democratic Progressive Party International Affairs Department. After Taiwan\u2019s first democratic change of government in 2000, she became an Adviser in the Office of the President, and was international spokesperson for all DPP presidential elections between 2000 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Hsiao has taken on numerous leadership roles in international organizations. She was the Chair of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD), an organization representing Asian democratic political parties. Between 2005 and 2012, she was elected Vice President on the Bureau of Liberal International (LI), a London-based global political party organization.<\/p>\n<p>She is also a founding Board Member of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Kobe, Japan, Representative Hsiao grew up in Tainan, a city in southern Taiwan. She has an MA in Political Science from Columbia University in New York and BA in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, April 14, 2023, at 9:30 AM PT, the UW Taiwan Studies Program welcomed Representative Bi-khim Hsiao for a public conversation with JSIS Professor James Lin to discuss the future of US-Taiwan Relations. &nbsp; Representative Bi-khim Hsiao assumed her position as Taiwan\u2019s Representative to the United States in July 2020, after serving as a<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/2023\/04\/28\/the-future-of-us-taiwan-relations-a-conversation-with-representative-bi-khim-hsiao\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":4446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,10,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic","category-news","category-video","region-taiwan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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