Some US federal employees will soon work inside Taiwan government offices for up to a year, under a new fellowship scheme the American Institute in Taiwan announced on Wednesday.
The Taiwan Fellowship Program, funded under Washington’s 2023 Taiwan Fellowship Act, starts with up to a year of intensive Mandarin language training and study. Once that training ends, fellows take up placements in Taiwan parliamentary offices, ministries, other agencies, or organisations outside the public sector, the institute said in a statement.
The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding for the programme on Tuesday in the United States. The institute said the main objectives are to expand and strengthen the US-Taiwan partnership and to deepen US officials’ expertise on Taiwan. It did not say how many people would take part each year.
Source: Reuters
