AIT Director Oudkirk takes office‘HELLO TAIWAN’: The incoming director is to start after completing 14 days of quarantine, while former director Christensen was sent off by officials yesterdayBy Lu Yi-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, staff writer, with CNASandra Oudkirk yesterday took over as director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) as the country bid farewell to her predecessor, Brent Christensen, who departed for the US. American Institute in Taiwan Director Sandra Oudkirk arrives in Taiwan on Monday. Oudkirk “looks forward to building on the successes of her predecessors and to further advancing the US-Taiwan relationship,” it said. Former American Institute in Taiwan director Brent Christensen waves goodbye as he leaves Taiwan yesterday. When asked about his gift of Aiwen mangoes to Christensen, Huang said the fruit was originally imported from Florida and to him it symbolized the friendship between the two countries.

Source: Taipei Times July 15, 2021 15:56 UTC