First Chinese marriage migrant lawmaker assumes office amid controversy

First Chinese marriage migrant lawmaker assumes office amid controversy

2026-02-03

The TPP on Tuesday inaugurated six new lawmakers-at-large for the Legislative Yuan. That’s because the party has a policy in which legislators elected through the party list serve only a two year term, after which they give up their spots for those next in line on the list. That means that the first batch of lawmakers, which included Party Chair Huang Kuo-chang is out, and another six are in. Among the new ones is Lee Zhen-hsiu, who has garnered some controversy due to her Chinese nationality. Lee is the first Chinese marriage migrant to ever become a lawmaker in Taiwan, due to a legal gap between cross-strait laws and the National Act. On Tuesday, she showed plane tickets to prove to the public that she had gone back to China to give up her Chinese nationality. But she says that local authorities would not accept her application. Let’s hear from her.

Lee Zhen-hsiu
Lawmaker (TPP)
I went back to my birthplace, Hengnan County, and I told the relevant authorities there that I wanted to apply to renounce my nationality. But they wouldn’t do it. As of the present day, there haven’t been any mainland Chinese spouses who have been able to actually give up their PRC nationality after obtaining a Taiwanese ID card. They provided a document written in simplified Chinese, which I will forward to the Ministry of the Interior, so that they can figure out how to renounce PRC nationality.

Chiu Chui-cheng
Mainland Affairs Council
Many countries’ constitutions do not allow citizens to renounce their nationality. That being the case, people from those countries would not be able to hold public office here in accordance with the Nationality Act. Our legislation is not directed solely at spouses from mainland China, it applies to every country equally.

The Mainland Affairs Council said that all foreign marriage migrants, no matter their origin, were considered one and the same when it comes to holding public office in Taiwan. Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior has requested Lee to provide proof that she applied to renounce her PRC nationality before she took office. Under the relevant provisions of the Nationality Act, she has one year to submit the relevant documents. If she fails to do so, she will be dismissed from her position.

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李貞秀拿出"返中機票" 嗆內政部"退中籍表"自己簽看看

2026-02-03

民眾黨不分區立委的兩年條款，原有6名立委黃國昌等人卸任，由另外6人遞補。今天6位新科立委上任，其中中配出身的李貞秀因為國籍引起討論，她出示機票強調曾回中國申請放棄國籍，但公安不受理。

[[立委(民眾) 李貞秀]]
“到我的出生地，衡南縣公安局出入境(管理局)，想要申請放棄國籍，但是縣公安局完全不受理。到目前為止，沒有任何陸配，因為台灣身分放棄中華人民共和國國籍成功過。它還附了一份，簡體的公文，我會轉交給內政部，請他們去放棄看看。”

[[陸委會主委邱垂正]]
“許多的國家，他們的憲法就是不准他們的國民放棄他們的國籍，當然任公職的話，因為國籍法的緣故，那他也無法擔任我們的公職，所以我們的國籍法，不是針對中國大陸配偶，而是針對所有的國家。”

陸委會強調"所有外配一視同仁"，內政部也引述國籍法，向李貞秀與立法院索要她在就職前就申請放棄國籍的證明。依法一年內沒能取得證明文件，李貞秀將被解職。

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes the news every time he returns to Taiwan. During his most recent visit, people noticed he upgraded his private car from the previous Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

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The man on the wheelchair is Mr. Wang, who’s 102 years old. He’s just visited the doctor accompanied by Ms. Lai, his caregiver—and wife since the beginning of the year. He’s ferried out by a small crowd as soon as he exits. Ms. Lai screams.

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The Presidential Office is holding a press conference on the sixth US-Taiwan Economic Prosperity Partnership Dialogue held last Tuesday in Washington, DC, with attendance by economic affairs and foreign ministers.

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The press conference today isn’t aimed at the KMT’s exchanges with the CCP at the moment. Rather, it’s to demonstrate a contrast, so that the people can see clearly for themselves, whether the DPP administration’s efforts—joining hands with the US and allies and becoming more internationalized—whether this economic strategy is more beneficial to Taiwan, or whether the opposition’s efforts for a second “Westward Movement” is more beneficial for Taiwan’s economic development.

National defense is also an indispensable part to US-Taiwan relations, as clearly demonstrated in an X post made by US Senator Roger Wicker, who also chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. Speaking of the opposition’s blocking of the Executive Yuan’s special defense budget bill, Wicker wrote that he’s “disappointed to see Taiwan’s opposition parties in parliament slash President Lai’s defense budget so dramatically.” He also urged Taiwan’s lawmakers to reconsider, “especially with rising Chinese threats.” President Lai concurs.

Lai Ching-te
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Oversight is the legislature’s responsibility. It has a duty to review the central government’s general budget. But speaking of the special defense budget, especially in the face of Chinese threats, they simply cannot refuse to review the central government’s general budget, nor can they refuse to review the special defense budget. Only conducting KMT-CCP cooperation is dangerous to Taiwan.

Lai again urges the opposition to approve the general budget and the original special defense budget.

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