Hsiao Bi-khim
Hsiao Bi-khim | |||||||||||||||||
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蕭美琴 | |||||||||||||||||
Official portrait, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| 13th Vice President of the Republic of China | |||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 20 May 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| President | Lai Ching-te | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Lai Ching-te | ||||||||||||||||
| 15th Representative of Taiwan to the United States | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 20 July 2020 – 30 November 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
| President | Tsai Ing-wen | ||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Stanley Kao | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Alexander Yui | ||||||||||||||||
| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |||||||||||||||||
| In office 1 February 2012 – 31 January 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Wang Ting-son (9th) | ||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Fu Kun-chi (9th) | ||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | Hualien County (9th) Party-list (8th) | ||||||||||||||||
| In office 1 February 2002 – 1 February 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | Taipei 1 (6th) Overseas (5th) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Bi-Khim Louise Hsiao 7 August 1971 Kobe, Japan | ||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | Taiwan United States (until 2002) | ||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Democratic Progressive Party | ||||||||||||||||
| Education | Oberlin College (BA) Columbia University (MA) | ||||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 蕭美琴 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 萧美琴 | ||||||||||||||||
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Hsiao Bi-khim (born Bi-khim Louise Hsiao; 7 August 1971) is a Taiwanese politician and diplomat who has been the 13th and current vice president of the Republic of China since 2024, serving under President Lai Ching-te. She is Taiwan's first biracial vice president. She was the Taiwanese representative to the United States from 2020 to 2023, and formerly served as a legislator of the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2008 and again between 2012 and 2020.
Born in Kōbe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, to a Taiwanese father and an American mother, Hsiao grew up in Tainan, Taiwan, before moving to the United States, where she graduated from Oberlin College and earned a master's degree in political science from Columbia University. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she is an important figure in the party's foreign policy circles. She formerly served as a vice president of Liberal International.