Mongolians in Taiwan (Chinese: 在臺蒙古人; pinyin: Zài tái ménggǔ rén) form a small portion of the island's population.
[2] According to 1959 statistics from the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission, there were 139 Mongol households with a total of 431 people in Taiwan, most of them belonging to Josotu, Jirem, and Ju Ud leagues.
[3] One of the most prominent such people to flee with the KMT was the 7th Changkya Khutukhtu, Lobsang Pelden Tenpe Dronme, who fled mainland China in 1949 and lived in Taipei until 1957.
[5] The plan initially faced opposition; a former chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission criticised it as "diplomatic pork barrel" and a covert attempt by the Democratic Progressive Party to push their platform of de-Sinicization by expanding bilateral ties with Mongolia, which the Republic of China government had previously considered to be Chinese territory and not an independent country.
Difficulties cited included long working hours and objections from employers that female employees wore clothing considered too revealing when the weather was hot.