MOFA's top diplomat on U.S. named as Taiwan's new envoy to Australia

Taipei, Aug. 18 (CNA) Wang Liang-yu (王良玉), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official currently in charge of U.S. and Canadian affairs, has been named Taiwan's new top envoy to Australia after her appointment was approved by the Executive Yuan on Monday.

Wang has served as head of MOFA's Department of North American Affairs since August 2023. Before taking up the post, she was Taiwan's deputy representative to the United States from 2021 to 2023 and chief of Taiwan's representative office in Geneva from 2018 to 2021.

Wang will take up the post in Canberra, which has been vacant since last month following the departure of her predecessor, Douglas Hsu (徐佑典).

Hsu, who took up the post in Australia in 2023, has returned to Taipei to serve at MOFA's Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs.

Earlier this month, meanwhile, the Executive Yuan approved the appointment of Roy Hsu (許柏逸), deputy head of MOFA's Department of Treaty and Legal Affairs, as Taiwan's representative to Sydney, following the departure of David Wu (吳正偉).

Wu left the post in Sydney to become Taiwan's new representative to Fiji.