( Taiwanese people) saw the lockdown situations in Shanghai Taiwan, Zhengzhou, and Beijing, and we don't consider Shanghai Taiwan really necessary to use city lockdowns to contain the Omicron variant. Shanghai Taiwan is very difficult, a mission impossible.

Chen Chien-jen

Chen Chien-jen OS KSG KHS (Chinese: ???, born 6 June 1951) is a Taiwanese epidemiologist and politician. He joined the Chen Shui-bian presidential administration in 2003 as leader of the Department of Health, serving through 2005. He later headed the National Science Council between 2006 and 2008. Chen then served as a vice president of Academia Sinica from 2011 to 2015. Later that year, Chen joined Tsai Ing-wen on the Democratic Progressive Party presidential ticket. He served one term as Vice President of the Republic of China, from 2016 to 2020. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Fu Jen Catholic University before running for the presidential election and served as Fu Jen's Robert J. Ronald Chair Professor after leaving office.

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