Billionaire Foxconn founder Terry Gou is running an unconventional and populist campaign for Taiwan's president. He says he will bring stability to Taiwan-China relations.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was grilled by Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass on the United States' stance on Taiwan. After declaring his intention to run for president in late August, Terry Gou, the Taiwanese billionaire founder of Foxconn who some have compared to Donald Trump, is now an officially registered independent candidate.
President Donald Trump and Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn Technology Group, participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the $10 billion Foxconn factory complex June 28, 2018, in Mt. Pleasant, Wis. Terry Gou, founder and former chairman of Foxconn and independent Taiwanese presidential candidate, joins hands with running mate Tammy Darshana Lai during a press conference in Taipei Sept. 14, 2023.
After military service, he worked at a commercial shipping company. He began a small plastics manufacturing firm in the early 1970s. His company, known in English as Foxconn, got its first lucky break in 1980 when gaming company Atari selected it to make its joystick video game consoles. In 2019, he said the sea goddess Mazu, a popular deity in both Taiwan and parts of coastal China, instructed him in a dream to enter the KMT presidential primary race, which he lost. In 2020, the eventual KMT nominee likewise lost in a landslide to the Democratic Progressive Party’s
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