Loh I-cheng

[2][3] In May 1984, while serving as ROC ambassador to Guatemala, Loh went to Belize and met with William Quinto and George Cadle Price to discuss the possibility of establishing relations between the ROC and Belize, but Guatemalan leader Rodolfo Lobos Zamora objected, and after Manuel Esquivel of the Belizean opposition United Democratic Party took power in the election late that year, the plans were put aside.

[6] Later that year, Nelson Mandela announced that his government would establish relations with Beijing in 1997; a visit by Foreign Minister John Chiang to meet with Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo and attempt to salvage the situation produced no results, and so Loh was recalled on 6 December 1996.

[1] In 2002, Loh published his 453-page memoirs, Valiant but Fruitless Endeavors: The Memoirs of Loh I-Cheng (微臣無力可回天——陸以正的外交生涯), based on diaries he had kept since 1979; the book's primary focus was on those major incidents of Taiwan's diplomatic history he had witnessed in his career, namely the expulsion of Taipei's representatives from the United Nations, and the loss of diplomatic recognition by the United States and then by South Africa.

In 2005, he started a donation movement to help local cable television station TVBS pay an NT$1 million fine assessed by the Government Information Office, which he described as politically motivated and a threat to the freedom of the press.

[9] In 2008, he wrote an article in a Taiwan newspaper suggesting that President Ma Ying-jeou should bring the National Unification Council out of dormancy in line with the Guidelines for National Unification as a goodwill gesture, in response to Beijing's willingness to let Taiwan participate in the 2008 Summer Olympics under the name "Chinese Taipei" instead of "Taipei, China".