《TAIPEI TIMES 焦點》 New AIT director set to take office, sends greetings

/ Staff writer, with CNA, Washington

New American Institute in Taiwan （AIT） Director Kin Moy arrived in Taipei last night.

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Before leaving Washington for Taiwan, Moy sent his greetings to Taiwanese via a video call.

Speaking in Mandarin, Moy said he is honored to be the next AIT director.

“For the past generation, the people of Taiwan and the people of the US have worked together to build an enduring partnership,” Moy said.

“The next few years will be an important time in the history of our friendship,” he said in the video released on Sunday, adding that he looks forward to joining the AIT’s efforts to improve ties.

Moy has been in the US foreign service for more than 20 years and has extensive experience in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a news release from the AIT.

He is to be the first Chinese-American to serve as AIT director, and the second high-ranking US diplomat of Chinese descent to serve in the Taiwan Strait area, following Gary Locke, who was the US ambassador to China from 2011 until last year.

The AIT said Moy’s most recent diplomatic assignment was at the US Department of State in Washington, where he served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for Taiwan, China and Mongolia.

Prior to that assignment, Moy served as deputy executive secretary in the office of then-US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton.

He also served as director of the executive secretariat staff in the office of former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, deputy director of the Maritime Southeast Asia office, desk officer in the Chinese and Mongolian Affairs office and special assistant in the Executive Secretariat in the office of former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright.

In addition to his Washington assignments, Moy has served in the US embassies in Beijing and Seoul, as well as the US consulate in Busan, South Korea, the AIT said.

新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES