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Hsiao Bi-khim Bi-khim Louise Hsiao | |||||||||||||||||
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蕭美琴 | |||||||||||||||||
 Official portrait, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| 13th Vice President of the Republic of China | |||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 20 May 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| President | Lai Ching-te | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Lai Ching-te | ||||||||||||||||
| 13th Vice Chair of the National Security Council | |||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 20 May 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| Secretary General | Joseph Wu | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Lai Ching-te | ||||||||||||||||
| 15th Representative of Taiwan to the United States | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 20 July 2020 – 30 November 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
| President | Tsai Ing-wen | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Stanley Kao | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Alexander Yui | ||||||||||||||||
| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 1 February 2012 – 31 January 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Wang Ting-son (9th) | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Fu Kun-chi (9th) | ||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | Hualien County (9th) Party-list (8th) | ||||||||||||||||
| In office 1 February 2002 – 1 February 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | Taipei 1 (6th) Overseas (5th) | ||||||||||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | Bi-Khim Louise Hsiao 7 August 1971 Kobe, Japan | ||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | Taiwan United States (until 2002) | ||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party | ||||||||||||||||
| Education | Oberlin College (BA) Columbia University (MA) | ||||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 蕭美琴 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 萧美琴 | ||||||||||||||||
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Hsiao Bi-khim[note 1] (Chinese: 蕭美琴; pinyin: Xiāo Měiqín; Wade–Giles: Hsiao1 Mei3-ch'in2; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siau Bí-khîm; born Bi-khim Louise Hsiao[1] on 7 August 1971) is a Taiwanese politician and diplomat. She is the incumbent vice president of Taiwan after winning the 2024 Taiwanese presidential election, and is Taiwan's first biracial vice president. She was the Taiwanese representative to the United States from 2020 to 2023, and formerly served as a legislator of the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2008 and again between 2012 and 2020.
Born in Kōbe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, to a Taiwanese father and an American mother, Hsiao grew up in Tainan, Taiwan, before moving to the United States. She graduated from Oberlin College and Columbia University with a master's degree in political science. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP),[2] she is an important figure in the party's foreign policy circles.[3] She formerly served as a vice president of Liberal International.[4]
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- ^ Hsu, Crystal (21 July 2002). "DPP hoping new blood will rejuvenate party". Taipei Times. p. 3.
- ^ "Vice President". Members > People. Liberal International. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
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