Diplomatic Circles

Taiwan’s new man in Ottawa hits the ground running

Chung-chen Kung has taken the reins of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada.Photograph courtesy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office

Feature

BY PETER MAZEREEUW

October 5, 2016

Taiwan’s new representative in Ottawa had little time to linger after arriving in Canada last month. Chung-chen Kung, 60, dove headlong into an ultimately unsuccessful lobbying effort by Taiwanese authorities to garner an invitation to attend a high-level meeting of the Interna...

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