This year’s APEC Economic Leaders Meeting will be held in Bangkok, Thailand on November 18-19. It is understood that TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou is expected to represent President Tsai Ing-wen for the 5th time and Taiwan for the 6th time as a leader to attend the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting. The Presidential Palace is expected to hold a press conference on the announcement of the delegation of the 2022 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders’ Meeting at the Auditorium of the Presidential Palace at 10:45 am.
After President Tsai took office, Zhang Zhongmou has represented Taiwan as the APEC leader representative many times, including Papua New Guinea in 2018, Chile in 2019, Malaysia in 2020, and New Zealand in 2021. Among them, Chile canceled the annual meeting in 2019 due to political factors, and in 2020 and 2021, due to the impact of the epidemic, the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting was held by video.
In addition, Zhang Zhongmou also attended the APEC meeting on behalf of former President Chen Shui-bian in 2006.
This year’s APEC is hosted by Thailand. This is the third year after PNG in 2018. It has once again held an economic leaders’ meeting in a physical form. Taiwan will also send a delegation to Thailand to attend a series of related meetings.
(Editor-in-Chief: Zhuang Yanyu)