Wan Exiang

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Field	Value
name	Wan Exiang
native_name
image	Wan Exiang2021.jpg
office	Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
term_start	17 March 2018
term_end	10 March 2023
1blankname	Chairman
1namedata	Li Zhanshu
office1	Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang
term_start1	18 December 2012
term_end1	10 December 2022
predecessor1	Zhou Tienong
successor1	Zheng Jianbang
office2	Vice President of the Supreme People's Court
term_start2	29 April 2000
term_end2	14 March 2013
1blankname2	President
1namedata2	Xiao Yang
Wang Shengjun
birth_date
birth_place	Gong'an County, Hubei, China
party	Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang
education	Wuhan University (BA, LLD)
Yale University (LLM)
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Wan Exiang (; born May 1956) is a Chinese politician and jurist who served as a vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2018 to 2023. He was the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang between 2012 and 2022.

Early life and education

Wan Exiang was born in Gong'an, Hubei, in 1956. Wan received his B.A. degree from Wuhan University in 1980, LL.M. degree from Yale Law School in 1987 and LL.D. degree from Wuhan University School of Law in 1988. After graduation, he joined the faculty of Wuhan University.

Career

Wan was elected as the vice president of the Intermediate People's Court of Wuhan in 1996, vice president of the High People's Court of Hubei in 1999, and Vice President of the Supreme People's Court of China in 2000. He was elected the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang in 2012.

In a 2013 interview, Wan said that the Chinese people crave the growth and stability of one-party rule and that the West had a fixation with electoral democracy. "We once had more than 300 parties in the early stage of the Republic of China, and the consequences were rivalry among political parties and warlords, and national disintegration. China could never have obtained such brilliant economic success today if we followed that kind of political system."{{cite web |date=March 12, 2013 |last=Jacobs |first=Andrew |author2=Patrick Zuo |author3=Shi Da |title=Non-Communist Parties Lend China an Air of Pluralism, Without the Mess |work=The New York Times |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315231416/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/world/asia/chinas-non-communist-parties-lend-an-air-of-pluralism.html |archivedate=15 March 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/world/asia/chinas-non-communist-parties-lend-an-air-of-pluralism.html |issn=0362-4331 |oclc=1645522 |url-access=subscription}}

Wan attended the Group of 20 parliament speakers in Tokyo, Japan, on November 4, 2019. He announced that China is ready to strengthen parliamentary exchanges with Japan to better promote the improvement and development of bilateral relations.

On 7 December 2020, pursuant to Executive Order 13936, the US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on all 14 Vice Chairpeople of the National People's Congress, including Wan, for "undermining Hong Kong's autonomy and restricting the freedom of expression or assembly."

References

References

1. (2019-11-07). "Wan Exiang attends G20 parliament speakers' meeting in Tokyo". XinhuaNet.
2. (2019-11-07). "Senior Chinese legislator calls for more parliamentary exchanges with Japan". XinhuaNet.
3. "Hong Kong-related Designations {{!}} U.S. Department of the Treasury".

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