Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Tien Hung-mao
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Career
He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 20 May 2000 until 1 February 2002. Thereafter he was a university professor for more than twenty years, and naturalised as a United States. citizen. After he moved back to Taiwan, Lee Teng-hui had asked him twice in the 1990s to serve in the Executive Yuan Council, but each time he refused.
Reportedly, the requirement that he renounce United States. citizenship was a major barrier.
He eventually accepted Chen Shui-bian"s offer to become Minister of Foreign Affairs, and renounced his United States. citizenship on 11 May, eight days before taking office. After his term ended, he took up a new post as the head of Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom
Politics
Tien received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969, where he wrote his dissertation on political development in China from 1927 to 1937. He later stated in an interview that he did not regret this step at all, because he "loved Taiwan".
