{{family name hatnote|Yen|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Yen Ming | native_name = {{no bold|{{lang|zh-hans|嚴明}}}} | image = Yen Ming (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = | order1 = | office1 = 30th Minister of National Defense of the Republic of China | deputy1 = Yen Teh-fa, Lee Shying-jow, Chiu Kuo-cheng, Andrew Hsia | president1 = Ma Ying-jeou | term_start1 = 8 August 2013 | term_end1 = 30 January 2015 | predecessor1 = Andrew Yang<br />Kao Kuang-chi (acting) | successor1 = Kao Kuang-chi | office2 = 22nd Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces | term_start2 = 16 January 2013 | term_end2 = 7 August 2013 | predecessor2 = Lin Chen-yi | successor2 = Kao Kuang-chi | office3 = 4th Commander of the Republic of China Air Force | term_start3 = June 2011 | term_end3 = 15 January 2013 | predecessor3 = Lei Yu-chi | successor3 = Liu Chen-wu | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|11|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Yunlin, Taiwan<ref name="國軍歷史文物館">{{Cite web |language=zh-hant |title=嚴 明（西元1949～） |url=http://museum.mnd.gov.tw/Publish.aspx?cnid=1484&p=56226 |publisher=Armed Forces Museum |location=Taipei |date=2013-08-22 |access-date=2017-06-16|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170212173732/http://museum.mnd.gov.tw/Publish.aspx?cnid=1484&p=56226 |archive-date=2017-02-12}}</ref> | party = | spouse = | children = | signature = <!--Military service--> | nickname = | allegiance = Republic of China | branch = Republic of China Air Force | service_years = 1971–2013 | rank = General | unit = | commands = | battles = Third Taiwan Strait Crisis | awards = | education = Republic of China Air Force Academy (BS)<br>National Defense University }}
[[File:Yen Ming on Legislative Yuan (2).jpg|thumb|Yen Ming (left) and Hsiao Wei-min (right) in Legislative Yuan]]
'''Yen Ming''' ({{lang-zh|t=嚴明|s=严明|first=t|p=Yán Míng}}; born 14 November 1949) was the Minister of National Defense of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 8 August 2013 to 30 January 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Defense minister resigns, citing personal reasons|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2015/01/28/2003610245|access-date=2015-12-01|work=Taipei Times|date=2015-01-28}}</ref>
==Education== Yen graduated from the Republic of China Air Force Academy in Kaohsiung.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.china-defense-mashup.com/taiwan-air-force-commander-to-serve-as-new-chief-staff.html |title=Taiwan Air Force Commander to serve as new chief staff |publisher=China Defense Mashup |date=2013-01-04 |access-date=2014-06-29}}</ref>
==Early career== Upon graduation, Yen worked his way through the Republic of China Air Force, serving as a wing commander, president of Air Force Academy, Air Force chief of staff and Air Force deputy commanding general.
==ROC Air Force General== thumb|Yen Ming as the Commander of the ROC Air Force
===General position appointment=== In October 2008, Yen was promoted as the General of the Air Force.
==ROC Armed Forces Chief of the General Staff==
===Chief of the General Staff position appointment=== On 3 January 2013, the Ministry of the Interior announced that President Ma Ying-jeou had approved the appointment of Yen to the position of Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces. He would replace Lin Chen-yi who was appointed as the military strategy adviser to the President.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/01/04/366257/Air-Force.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105051321/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2013/01/04/366257/Air-Force.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 5, 2013 |title=Air Force commander to serve as new chief of general staff |publisher=The China Post |access-date=2014-06-29}}</ref>
==ROC Minister of National Defense==
===Ministry position appointment=== Yen replaces acting Defense Minister Kao Kuang-chi after the sudden resignation of Defense Minister Andrew Yang, just 6 days after taking his office after the previous Defense Minister Kao Hua-chu's resignation due to the death scandal of Corporal Hung Chung-chiu.
The Executive Yuan officially appointed him on 8 August 2013 from his previous post as ROC Chief of the General Staff. Acting Defense Minister Kao Kuang-chi replaces his position as the ROC Chief of the General Staff.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/08/08/2003569182 |title=Ma appoints General Yen Ming as defense minister |publisher=Taipei Times |date=2014-06-22 |access-date=2014-06-29}}</ref>
===Taiwanese woman abduction in Malaysia=== Commenting on the recent abduction incident over a Taiwanese female in Sabah, Malaysia, Yen said that although the ROC Ministry of National Defense (MND) has the capability of special forces to save the woman, but then those armed forces are reserved for the use of armed conflict between nation, and MND should not step into an international incident which is the ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) should do. Overseas special forces deployment will only be possible if there is a mutual treaty between the ROC and the host country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/11/22/2003577437 |title=No to special force rescue: ministry |publisher=Taipei Times |date=2014-06-22 |access-date=2014-06-29}}</ref>
== Criticism ==
===Disarmaments of the ROC Marine Corps cause Veterans' protests=== In mid January 2014, Yen announced that the government plan to cut the number of military to below 200,000 personnel by the end of 2019 to adjust the organization and restructure the armed forces, in which the goal is to make ROC military to be small but elite, small but skillful and small but strong.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/01/22/2003581842 |title=Military to be cut to under 200,000 |publisher=Taipei Times |date=2014-06-22 |access-date=2014-06-29}}</ref>
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