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Meet Terry Gou, Foxconn billionaire founder, running for Taiwan presidency

Gou's ability to pair American demand for gadgets with cheap Asian labor went into overdrive with the opening up of China

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Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Foxconn, looks on during an announcement of seeking the nomination of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang party to run for the island's presidency, in Taipei, Taiwan April 17, 2019. Photo: Reuters

Samson Ellis and Debby Wu | Bloomberg
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