Taiwan Provides Mandarin Education for California Public Employees

The course is part of a collaboration between the Taiwanese government and the American Institute in Taiwan.

Flags of Taiwan and the United States are placed for a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 27, 2018. Tyrone Siu/Reuters

With support from two Taiwanese government organizations, the city of Fremont, California, began offering free Mandarin language training courses to its city employees on Sept. 19.

The course is part of a collaboration between the Taiwanese government and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). It is the first Mandarin training program provided by Taiwan to a local government in Northern California, according to Deputy Director Chu Yung-chang of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in San Francisco.