William Andreas Brown (born September 7,1930) [2] served as the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand from 1985 to 1988 and U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 1988 to 1992. He also served as the last Chief of mission (Chargéd'affaires) of the U.S. Embassy to the Republic of China (Taiwan) stationed in Taipei,Taiwan after the departure of Ambassador Leonard S. Unger in 1979. [3] After diplomatic ties between Taipei and Washington severed,he remained in Taiwan to set up the Taipei Main Office of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) at the former compound of U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG). [2] : 250 He then served as the Acting Director and Deputy Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (after the inauguration of Charles T. Cross,first Director to Taiwan). [4]
Brown was born in Winchester,Massachusetts and grew up in East Lexington,Massachusetts and graduated from Lexington High School (Massachusetts). He majored in history at Harvard on a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship and served as an artillery officer in the United States Marine Corps from 1952 to 1954 and the reserves from 1954 to 1960. [2] [5] He was stationed in Korea after the Korean War from August 1953 for about a year. [2]
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Foreign relations of the Republic of China (ROC),more commonly known as Taiwan,are accomplished by efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China,a cabinet-level ministry of the Government of the Republic of China. As of January 2024,the ROC has formal diplomatic relations with 11 of the 193 United Nations member states and with the Holy See,which governs the Vatican City State. In addition to these relations,the ROC also maintains unofficial relations with 59 UN member states,one self-declared state (Somaliland),three territories (Guam,Hong Kong,and Macau),and the European Union via its representative offices and consulates. In 2021,the Government of the Republic of China had the 33rd largest diplomatic network in the world with 110 offices.
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South Korean–Taiwan relations
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