Yu Beichen
Yu Beichen is a former major general in the Republic of China Army and currently a Taiwanese non-partisan politician. His personnel background in the military was from the fraction of General Kao Hua-chu and General Lee Hsiang-chou. He was involved in Taiwanese politics after his retirement and currently runs his own YouTube channel, and was owned the nickname of the “Donated-General”.[1]
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Born | Taipei | January 2, 1968
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Years of service | 1990-2015 |
Rank | Major General |
Personal life
Yu Beichen was born on January 2, 1968, in Taipei. His ancestry goes back to China's Shandong province.
Military career
He joined the military in 1990. He moved up the ranks and was a major general at the time of his retirement in 2015. In 2015, citing concerns relating to his health and work-related stress, he retired from the military.[2]
Political career
Yu Beichen was a member of the Kuomintang party in Taiwan from 1985 to 2021. After his retirement from the military, he served as chairman of Huangfuxing's Taoyuan Kuomintang party headquarters, as well as the vice-chairman of the KMT's Taoyuan city party headquarters. He was dismissed from these roles in 2020. Later, at the end of 2021, he publicly announced that he was quitting the Kuomintang party over disagreements regarding the party's direction, including disagreement about a lack of strength in standing up to the mainland.[3]
Commentator
He currently has his own YouTube channel with over 100,000 subscribers as of May 2022. He has appeared in political talk shows in Taiwan. In May 2022, he criticized the Chen Mingtong the head of the RoC's intelligence for publicly revealing specific intelligence regarding Chinese plans for invading Taiwan and the makeup of Xi Jinping's cabinet following the 20th CCP party congress [4]
References
- "北極星說故事 - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
- "台湾陆军旅长因身体原因报请退伍 疑因压力过大_军事_中国台湾网". www.taiwan.cn. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
- "不知情下「被停權」!于北辰退出國民黨喊「不如歸去」!不滿中共打壓「黨卻不敢抗議」!". www.fountmedia.io. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
- "台湾情报首长"蔡政府任内不会有事"报告:关注要点背后的关键要素". BBC News 中文 (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 2022-05-15.