Kan Cheong Dunn

Kan Cheong Dunn
鄧權昌
Ambassador of Taiwan to Liberia
In office October 1989 – September 25, 1990
Preceded by	Cao Yuanxin
Succeeded by	Xu Cinong
Personal details
Born	(1925-02-28)February 28, 1925 Panyu County, Guangdong
Died	April 19, 2014(2014-04-19) (aged 89)
Spouse	Lin Kwei Fong (1950 in Kaohsiung)
Children	6 sons, 6 grandchildren, and two great granddaughters.
Education	National Chengchi University in Chongqing majoring in Law & Political Science. Republic of China Naval Academy (Class 1950)
Military service
Branch/service	Republic of China Navy
Years of service	1950 - circa. 1953

Kan Cheong Dunn (February 28, 1925 – April 19, 2014) was a Taiwanese ambassador of Cantonese descent and former naval officer of the ROC Navy.

Career

• He joined the Chinese Navy and received additional training at the U.S. Naval Training School in Miami in communications and anti-submarine warfare.
• He was part of the Chinese crew that sailed former US Navy ships from Miami backed to China during the final days of World War II.
• As the war ended, he entered the Chinese Naval Academy and graduated in 1949.
• In 1950 he was Secretary to Admiral Kwei Yung-ching, Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of China Navy.
• In 1952, he served in the Office of the President as Secretary to the Chief of Staff.
• In 1953, he qualified in the Diplomat Senior Grade Examinations.
• In 1954 he became assistant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in Taipei.
• From 1958 to 1960 he was Vice Consul in Davao City, Republic of Philippines.
• From 1960 to 1964 he was Vice Consul in San Francisco.
• In 1964, he was Consul in Los Angeles.
• From 1967 to 1970 he was Consul in New York-
• From 1970 to 1972 he had Execuartur as Consul General in Chicago.
• From 1972 to 1973 he was Deputy Director-General of MOFA Bureau of Consular Affairs.
• In 1973 he became exequartur as Consul General in Houston.
• From 1977 to 1978 he was Director-General of MOFA Department of General Affairs.
• From 1978 to 1979 he was the last Consul General in New York City.
• From 1979 to 1985 he became Director-General of Coordination Council for North American Affairs in New York (later Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, TECO-New York) after the diplomatic recognition from the United States was severed. During his tenure he also represented Taiwan as quasi ambassador next the Headquarters of the United Nations.
• From 1986 to 1987 he was Vice Chairperson of MOFA Research and Planning Committee in Taipei.
• In 1988, he was appointed Representative of the Trade Mission of the Republic of China in Monrovia.
• In October 1989 when the government in Liberia swapped the diplomatic recognition from the government in Beijing to the government in Taipei, he became ambassador to Liberia.
• He stayed for three month in the First Liberian Civil War
• On Sept. 25, 1990 Dunn left the ROC embassy in Monrovia and escaped to the Ivory Coast, bringing his secretary and 15 mainland Chinese with him.
• In 1997, he retired from public service.

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