Chiang Hsiao-wu

{{Short description|Taiwanese diplomat (1945–1991)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Alex Chiang Hsiao-wu

| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hant|蔣孝武}}}}

| image = Chiang Ching-kuo family (蒋孝武).jpg

| nationality = Republic of China

| order1 =

| office1 = ROC Representative to Japan

| deputy1 =

| term_start1 = January 1990{{cite news |last=O'Neill |first=Mark |date=August 5, 1990 |title=Unofficial Taiwan Ambassador Carries Heavy Burden of History in Japanese Capital |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-05-mn-92-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |agency=Reuters |access-date=November 7, 2014 }}

| term_end1 = June 1991

| predecessor1 =

| successor1 = Hsu Shui-teh

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|4|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Zhejiang, Republic of China

| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|7|1|1945|4|25|df=y}}{{cite news |author= |date=July 3, 1991 |title=Chiang Hsiao-wu; Taiwan Diplomat, 46 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/03/obituaries/chiang-hsiao-wu-taiwan-diplomat-46.html |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York, New York |agency=AP |access-date=November 7, 2014 }}

| death_place = Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

| party = Kuomintang

| spouse = Michelle Chiang Tsai Hui-mei{{cite web |url=http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/Dkt18-2-DeclarationofEricWakin.pdf |title=Declaration of Eric Wakin |author= |date=January 8, 2014 |website=hoover.org |publisher=The Hoover Institution |access-date=November 7, 2014 }}

| children = Alexandra Chiang Yo-lan, Johnathan Chiang Yo-sung{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=Jay |date=November 14, 2000 |title=The Generalissimo's Son: Chiang Ching-kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_5R2fnVZXiwC&pg=PA318 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Harvard University Press |page=318 |isbn=978-0674002876 |access-date=November 7, 2014 }}

| alma_mater = Chinese Culture University
Munich School of Political Science{{cite web |last1=O'Neill |first1=Mark |title=Unofficial Taiwan Ambassador Carries Heavy Burden of History in Japanese Capital |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-05-mn-92-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=5 August 1990 |access-date=14 April 2020}}

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Chiang Hsiao-wu ({{zh|t=蔣孝武|p=Jiǎng Xiàowǔ}}; also known as Alex Chiang; April 25, 1945 – July 1, 1991) was the second son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988. His mother is Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang. He had one older brother, Hsiao-wen, one older sister, Hsiao-chang, and one younger brother, Hsiao-yung. He also had two half-brothers, Winston Chang and John Chiang, with whom he shared the same father.

He was president of the state-run Broadcasting Corporation of China from 1980 to 1986, and later headed the Republic of China mission to Singapore for two years,{{cite news |author= |date=February 23, 1989 |title=Singapore PM All Smiles In ROC |url=http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=5492&CtNode=451 |newspaper=Taiwan Journal (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) |location=Taipei, Taiwan |access-date=November 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107204428/http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=5492&CtNode=451 |archive-date=2014-11-07 |url-status=dead }} starting in April 1986 as the deputy trade representative{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NIxGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WekMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2721%2C2598703 |title=Aging Taiwan President Prepares To End Dynasty, Talks With Foes |author=Brown, Phil |agency=AP |newspaper=Schenectady Gazette |date=12 June 1986 |access-date=19 May 2016 }} before being transferred to the mission to Japan in 1990.{{cite news |author= |date=July 4, 1991 |title=Chiang Hsiao-wu; Grandson of Chiang Kai-shek |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-04-mn-2275-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |access-date=November 7, 2014 }}{{cite news |author= |date=January 15, 1990 |title=From Presidential Stock; Tokyo Press Welcomes Chiang |url=http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=7755&CtNode=122&mp=9 |newspaper=Taiwan Journal (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) |location=Taipei, Taiwan |access-date=November 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107204057/http://taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=7755&CtNode=122&mp=9 |archive-date=2014-11-07 |url-status=dead }} In a December 1985 speech, Hsiao-wu's father Chiang Ching-kuo declared "If someone asks me whether anyone in my family would run for the next presidential term, my reply is, 'It can't be and it won't be.'"{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MAU9JjMcfsQC&pg=PA72 |title=Democratizing Taiwan |author=Jacobs, J. Bruce|author-link1=J. Bruce Jacobs |chapter=Three: The Lee Teng-Hui presidency to early 1996 |page=72 |date=2012 |publisher=Koninklijke Brill NV |location=Leiden, The Netherlands |access-date=19 May 2016 |isbn=978-90-04-22154-3 |quote=On February 13, 1990 a group of National Assembly members proposed Lin Yang-kang for president and the following day Chiang Wego denied that his brother Chiang Ching-kuo had said, "Members of the Chiang family cannot and will not run for president." Footnote 19: [...] Chiang Ching-kuo made this statement on December 25, 1985.}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/26/world/taiwan-chief-rules-out-chance-family-member-will-succeed-him.html |title=Taiwan chief rules out chance family member will succeed him |author= |date=26 December 1985 |agency=AP |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=19 May 2016 }}{{cite speech |url=http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=117721&CtNode=103 |title=Constitution to Determine His Successor |author=Chiang Ching-kuo |author-link=Chiang Ching-kuo |event=Constitution Day |location=Taipei, Taiwan |date=25 December 1985 |access-date=19 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808114036/http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=117721&CtNode=103 |archive-date=8 August 2016 }} Prior to the speech, Chiang Hsiao-wu was the only one of Chiang Ching-kuo's sons mentioned as a potential successor.

He died at the age of 46, on July 1, 1991, at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan as a result of congestive heart failure brought on by chronic inflammation of the pancreas.{{cite news |author= |date=July 1, 1991 |title=SON OF LATE PRESIDENT CHIANG DIES |url=https://apnews.com/0b6c60de305dd386cb48d093c1111080 |work=AP News |access-date=November 7, 2014 }} He was survived by his wife and two children.