AIT chair to brief Taiwan on Obama's China trip

Discussions between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing were the main focus of the U.S. president's three-day visit to China, the third leg of his four-nation tour of Asia.

According to a statement yesterday released by the AIT, Raymond Burghardt, the institute's chairman will visit Taiwan from Nov. 22 to Nov. 25.

During his upcoming seventh-trip to Taiwan since his appointment as AIT chairman, Burghardt will meet with President Ma Ying-jeou, Legislative Yuan speaker Wang Jin-pyng, Premier Wu Den-yih and other major political and business leaders, the AIT said.

Burghardt was the director of the AIT's Taipei office from 1999 to 2001. His public services career included assignments as the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam and as the U.S. consul general in Shanghai, as well as postings at U.S. embassies in Asia and Latin America.

In Washington, he served on the staff of the National Security Council. He is currently the Director of East-West Seminars at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, a position he holds concurrently with his AIT position.

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