Foxconn billionaire founder Terry Gou’s surprise announcement Wednesday that he plans to run for president of Taiwan after being urged to do so by a sea goddess has raised to fever pitch the debate about the island’s fragile relations with China and the US.
But who is Terry Gou?
While the 68-year-old is a star in his own country, he’s hardly a household name abroad. Yet his factories employ more than a million people in China and hundreds of thousands more around the world from the US to the Czech Republic and Brazil. Foxconn Technology Group assembles phones and gadgets

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