The Taiwan Fellowship Act would allow 10 U.S. federal government employees each year to work with their Taiwanese counterparts in those Taiwan government offices most relevant to their home agencies after receiving one year of intensive Mandarin Chinese language training in Taiwan.
As U.S.-Taiwan high-level exchanges are rather limited, we consider the working-level exchanges that this Act seeks to achieve extremely conducive to enhancing mutual understanding and long-term cooperation between the two countries and fully in keeping with the Taiwan Relations Act and Taiwan Travel Act. If this legislation becomes law, Taiwan would be only the second country in the world to enjoy such a cooperative partnership program with the United States.
We are highly supportive of the Taiwan Fellowship Act and have been working with the Western Pacific Fellowship Project of Massachusetts which is the primary sponsor. We urge all members to voice support for swift conference passage and implementation of the Taiwan Fellowship Act to their Senators and Congressmen/women.
TAIWAN FELLOWSHIP ACT (S. 811 and H.R. 3084) 《臺灣獎學金法》每年將允許十位美國公務人員來臺，
由於臺美高層交流相對受限，我們認為此法案欲推行的「
有鑑於貴機構對《臺灣獎學金法》的高度支持，以及與《
Richard A. Pearson | Executive Director
Western Pacific Fellowship Project, Inc.
P.O. Box 760711 | Melrose, MA 02176
+1 202.321.0218 (Direct Phone) | pearsonra@hotmail.com
www.western-pacific.org
