Lee Jye | |
Native Name: | Chinese: 李傑 |
Office: | 24th Minister of National Defense |
President: | Chen Shui-bian |
Primeminister: | Yu Shyi-kun Frank Hsieh Su Tseng-chang |
Deputy: | Lee Chung-wei (administrative) |
Term Start: | 20 May 2004 |
Term End: | 21 May 2007 |
Predecessor: | Tang Yao-ming |
Successor: | Lee Tien-yu |
Office1: | Executive Yuan Minister without Portfolio |
Term Start1: | 20 May 2004 |
Term End1: | 21 May 2007 |
Primeminister1: | Yu Shyi-kun Frank Hsieh Su Tseng-chang |
Office2: | Chief of the General Staff of ROC Armed Forces |
Term Start2: | 1 February 2002 |
Term End2: | 19 May 2004 |
1Blankname2: | President |
1Namedata2: | Chen Shui-bian |
Predecessor2: | Tang Yao-ming |
Successor2: | Lee Tien-yu |
Birth Date: | 1940 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Tientsin, Republic of China |
Party: | Independent (since 2007) |
Otherparty: | Kuomintang (1958-2007) |
Spouse: | Cheng Hui-chin |
Lee Jye (; born 6 June 1940) is a Taiwanese military member. He served as the Minister of National Defense of Taiwan during 2004 to 2007 under the Chen Shui-bian government.
He was born in Tianjin on 6 June 1940, and fled to Taiwan with family at the end of the Chinese Civil War.
He originally joined the then ruling Kuomintang in the early days of his military career, but was later expelled by the KMT, who lost power after the 2000 presidential election, for complying with President Chen Shui-bian's orders to remove all Chiang Kai-shek statues from military bases.[1] [2] He was quoted saying "I'll obey the order of the party that is in power" and "if KMT holds power again, they can re-install the statues if they wish."
He was the minister of the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China, and was a Senior Admiral in the Republic of China Navy when he retired.