A delegation of Taiwanese officials and university presidents is in the US to recruit overseas Taiwanese and foreigners for local research positions.
Following stops in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the delegation started their visit to the US east coast on Thursday, with Minister of Science and Technology Chen Liang-gee (陳良基), Deputy Minister of Education Yao Leeh-ter (姚立德) and officials from nine universities telling students in New York City about grants available for research in Taiwan.
Chen said the nine universities are looking to fill more than 300 positions, with the Ministry of Science and Technology providing annual funding of between NT$5 million and NT$10 million (US$171,538 and US$343,077) for five to 10-year research programs.
The Ministry of Education is also offering annual salaries of between NT$1.5 million and NT$5 million to make working in Taiwan even more lucrative, he said.
Chen underscored the advantages of working in Taiwan: freedom, democracy and rule of law.
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York Director Hsu Li-wen (徐儷文) said there are nearly 4,000 Taiwanese studying in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, making the area a fertile pool for professional talent.
Hsu expressed confidence that the delegation could demonstrate Taiwan’s determination to recruit talent from abroad and attract many of these young academics back to Taiwan.
The delegation’s next port of call is Boston, Massachusetts.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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