Declaration of Formosan Self-Salvation

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Declaration of Formosan Self-Salvation
September 20, 1964

Peng Ming-min Hsieh Tsung-min Wei Ting-chaohttp://www.hi-on.org.tw/ad/peng_0707_rt.html

A strong movement is rapidly sweeping across Taiwan. It is a self-salvation movement for the 12 million (the population at that time) people of Taiwan, who are unwilling to be governed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or destroyed by Chiang Kai-shek. People throughout the world are awakening, and we want to joint hem. To establish a democratic, free, sensible, and prosperous society, we will unite to abolish Chiang Kai-shek’s illegitimate regime. We deeply believe that joining this strong movement to realize our dignified objectives is everyone’s right, and also everyone’s duty. One: “One China, One Taiwan” has long been a solid truth. In Europe, America, Africa, or Asia, the recognition of the Chinese Communists does not affect the world’s acceptance of “One China, One Taiwan.” Even in the United States, who remains isolated in its Asian policies, only a few conservative politicians advocate the theory of non-recognition (not recognizing Chinese Communists as the legitimate government of China). Mainstream opinions, especially those of the intellectuals, demand the legal recognition of “One China, One Taiwan” to ultimately solve the conundrum. American foreign policy is directed towards that end. Why does the United States still nominally treat Chiang’s regime as the only legitimate government of China? It is because the United States wants to use it to bargain with the Chinese Communists and reach a gainful compromise. The United States and Communist China have negotiated more than one hundred times in Warsaw. The United States has insisted that as long as the Chinese Communists abandon the request to “liberate Taiwan,” America’s door will always be open to them. Chiang’s regime is barely surviving solely with the help of the Seventh Fleet of the United States. We should never be blinded by the wishful thinking of the “re-conquest of China” and there by take the path of destruction. Once the Seventh Fleet retreats, Chiang’s regime will collapse in a few hours. Slogans such as the “re-conquest of China” only serve as a decoy of maintaining Chiang’s illegitimate regime and suppressing the people of Taiwan.