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Su Chi likely to get NSC job, sources say

Following his poll win, president-elect Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has been busy laying out his preliminary personnel plans and sources have said that former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Su Chi (蘇起) is likely to be appointed secretary-general of the National Security Council (NSC).

Su is already part of Ma's team that is preparing for the transition in May when President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) leaves office.

By his own admission, Su invented the term "1992 consensus," which Ma made reference to in a press conference held the day following the presidential election.

Su has a doctoral degree from Columbia University and served as chairman of the Cabinet's Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, director of the Government Information Office, deputy secretary-general of the Presidential Office and Mainland Affairs Council chairman under the previous KMT government. Following the transition of power in 2000, he took up a professorship at Tamkang University.

Ma has said that he will resuscitate contacts between the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS).

Sources said former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan (連戰) and People First Party Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) were both interested in the SEF chairman position.

In the past, the SEF job has been given to an individual trusted by the president and acceptable to China. Lien is probably the most acceptable choice in China's eyes, sources said, but it is still unclear whether Ma would feel at ease with Lien in the position.

Also see: EDITORIAL: SEF: Putting trouble out to pasture
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