List of Chinese Taipei representatives to APEC explained

The Republic of China (Taiwan) joined the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in 1991 together with mainland China and British Hong Kong.^[1]

The heads of government of all APEC member economies meet annually in a summit called the "APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting", rotating in location among APEC's member economies. However, owing to the nature of the Economic Forum of APEC and the One China policy, the president of the Republic of China is not allowed to appear in APEC and thus appoints a special envoy every year to attend the APEC meeting under the name Chinese Taipei.

Year	Representative	President	Capacity as representative	Other official office(s) held	Former official office(s) held
1993	Vincent Siew		Chairman for Economic Planning Development	Minister without Portfolio	Minister of Economic Affairs (1990–1993)
1994
1995	Koo Chen-fu		Senior Advisor to the President	Chairman, SEF	National Policy Advisor (1988–1991)
1996
1997
1998	Chiang Pin-kung		Chairman for Economic Planning Development	Minister without Portfolio	Minister of Economic Affairs (1993–1996)
1999
2000	Perng Fai-nan	Chen Shui-bian	Representative of the Economic Leader	Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
2001	none, boycott
2002	Yuan-Tseh Lee	Chen Shui-bian	Representative of the Economic Leader	President, Academia Sinica	National Policy Advisor (1991–1994)
2003
2004
2005	Lin Hsin-i		Senior Advisor to the President	Chairman, ITRI	Vice Premier (2002–2004); Minister of Economic Affairs (2000–2002)
2006	Morris Chang
2007	Stan Shih
2008	Lien Chan	Ma Ying-jeou	Representative of the Economic Leader^[2]		Vice President (1996–2000), Premier (1993–1997)
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013	Vincent Siew^[3] ^[4]				Vice President (2008–2012), Premier (1997–2000)
2014
2015
2016	James Soong^[5]	Tsai Ing-wen	Senior Advisor to the President		Governor of Taiwan Province (1993–1998)
2017
2018					Founder, chairman and CEO, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023

Notes

1. Leadership in semi-governmental organizations are classified here as "official offices."
2. President Chen Shui-bian had appointed former Vice President Li Yuan-zu as his envoy, but the PRC, which was hosting the summit, objected to his choice and the Chinese Taipei delegation decided to boycott.
3. President Chen's original choice of Legislative Yuan President Wang Jin-pyng was rejected by the host South Korea. Chen also applied to attend personally but was denied his request.
4. President Chen's original choice of former Vice Premier Tsai Ing-wen was rejected by Australia because of her alleged involvement in formulating the "One Country on Each Side" theory.

See also

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• Taipei
• Taiwan

External links

• Leader's Declarations – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• Who's Who in Taiwan 2004

Notes and References

1. Web site: apec-paper-2. club.ntu.edu.tw.
2. Web site: Conditions not right for APEC attendance: Ma - The China Post . www.chinapost.com.tw . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014173430/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/08/27/387427/Conditions-not.htm . 2013-10-14.
3. Web site: The China Post. The China Post.
4. Web site: Taiwan's Ex-VP Siew readies for APEC leaders' summit, 3 November 2014 . 5 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141112232500/http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/174813/taiwan-39-s-ex-vp-siew-readies-for-apec-leaders-summit.html . 12 November 2014 . dead .
5. Web site: Soong to represent president at APEC leaders' summit - Taipei Times. www.taipeitimes.com. 6 October 2016.