"A local government head, after all, is different from an executive officer of the central government," Chiu said.
Liu, who holds a master's degree in environmental engineering from Oklahoma University, once served as the director of the Bureau of Environmental Protection at the Taipei City Government when President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was the city mayor.
She later took up the post of deputy commissioner of Taichung County.
"When she was the deputy commissioner, the commissioner usually played the good guy while she played the bad guy," Chiu said. "But she was so in the right and self-confident that no one could find fault with her."
Chiu's advice for Liu is to try to be more perceptual than rational.
"I guess her rationality may have a lot to do with her being a woman, especially a single, independent women who occupies a high-ranking position," Chiu said.
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