Taiwan's semi-official organization for dialog with China
Straits Exchange Foundation 海峽交流基金會
Formation
21 November 1990 (first meeting) 9 March 1991 (start operation)[1]
Headquarters
Zhongshan, Taipei, Taiwan
Chairperson
David Lee
Vice Chairman and Secretary-General
Ko Cheng-heng
Website
Official website(in Chinese)
The Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF; Chinese: 海峽交流基金會; pinyin: Hǎixiá Jiāoliú Jījīnhuì; often abbreviated as 海基會) is a semiofficial organization set up by the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to handle technical and/or business matters with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Though technically a private organization, it is funded by the government and under the supervision of the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan. Its role is effectively to function as the de facto embassy to the PRC, as a means of avoiding acknowledgement of the PRC's statehood status.
Its counterpart in the PRC is the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS).
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