給美國國務卿 Hilary Clinton 的一封信

Dear Honorable Secretary of State Ms. Clinton:

Taiwan as a free independent country would be of great strategic importance in the Pacific. If the USA lets the Republic Of China (ROC)’s Chinese Kuomintang Party succeed in their plot to sell out Taiwan to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), it will endanger the security and stability of the entire Western Pacific region, including Japan.

In September of 1951, Japan signed a Peace Treaty in San Francisco,2 renouncing all its rights and claims to Taiwan and effectively handing Taiwan over to the Allied forces with USA as the principal occupying power. Taiwanese people are supposed to be legally protected by the USA Constitution. Instead, they have been abandoned as stateless people and forced at gunpoint to accept the foreign Chinese nationality of the ROC, which as the losing side of the Chinese civil war, has become an international pariah non-state, without a country.

It’s time to recognize the legal status of Taiwan remains that of a USA protectorate, and end the long suffering of the Taiwanese people, who are still trapped as political orphans, abandoned as though they were shameful leftovers, of unfinished USA responsibilities from the second world war.

The USA still has the opportunity, the moral obligation, and the legal authority under international law, to establish a strong buffer to Chinese aggression in the Pacific, by freeing the Taiwanese people after 63 years of illegal occupation and oppression by the ROC Chinese Kuomintang Party.

The USA should conduct an open referendum in Taiwan on the Independence of Taiwan. This referendum should be conducted entirely by the USA and directly under the military protection of the USA. After the referendum, the USA can then, with a clear conscience, grant the Taiwanese people the true independence they deserve, and empower them to contribute positively to world peace and prosperity as a friendly partner of USA.

A condensed Taiwan Political History for your reference:

As you may know, Taiwan has never in recorded history ever been a part of China. The Chinese have less legal right to claim Taiwan as a province of China than claiming California as a province. After all, there are more Chinese living in California than in Taiwan.

The Taiwanese native people do not even have a DNA relationship with the Chinese people. In fact, native Formosan seafarers traveled as far away as New Zealand, Hawaii and Easter Island. New Language Phylogenies research from the University of Auckland, the language tree, places the Austonesian origin in Taiwan approximately 5230 years ago. Today, the New Zealand native Maori people have a direct DNA match with Taiwanese/Formosans, not the Chinese. 5,6,7

Over the past 400 years, many countries established colonies in Taiwan. The first to come were the Dutch, who in 1624 established a fortress, named “Zeelandia” on a peninsular called Tayouan, meaning Terrace Bay. This later evolved into the pronunciation of Taiwan, which then came to be known as the name for the whole island.

In the north, the Spanish also established settlements with English and other Asian trading people.

The Dutch brought in Minnan and Hakka people8 as migrant workers for their sugar plantations and rice fields. They usually came for a few years (without family) and then returned to China. Eventually, more and more settled in Taiwan, and married aborigine wives. Thus, a new race was born: the Taiwanese.9

In 1662, the Dutch in Tayouan were defeated by a Chinese pirate, Koxinga, who was on the run from the newly established Manchus Empire on China. He in turn was driven out in 1683. The Dutch and others then returned to Tayouan.10

In the 1870's, after pirates operating from bases in Taiwan, had captured a number of American, Japanese and French ships passing the island, their respective governments protested to Peking, but the Manchu emperor of China at that time officially stated: "Those people in Taiwan are beyond our territory."

In fact, the French got so upset by the recurring attacks on their ships, and the Manchu’s inaction, that The French sent a naval fleet to the island, and for nine months in 1884-85, the northern part of Taiwan was subjected to France’s control. France offered Taiwan to Japan, in exchange for assistance in its war against the Manchu.

It wasn't until 1885, that the Manchu Imperial authorities decided to try and unilaterally declare Taiwan to be a "province" of their Empire. They wanted to outmaneuver the Japanese, who were expanding their influence south to Taiwan. Liu Ming Chuan was named as the “Governor of Taiwan Province”. At this time, Taiwan was made up of hundreds of tribes, dozens of foreign settlements, without any collective governing body. When Liu tried to exert some authority, a series of armed uprisings broke out. In 1891 Liu was replaced by Shao Youlian who was in turn replaced by Tang Jinsong. By any measure, at no time were the Chinese able to annex or even exert any control over Taiwan.

The farce of Taiwan being a province of China ended on April 17, 1895, when Japan signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki1 with China. In Article 2 it states that China cedes to Japan in perpetuity and full sovereignty the island of Formosa, together with all islands appertaining or belonging to the said island of Formosa. China recalled Tang and on May 8, 1895 a formal transfer to Japan, of whatever authority China ever had in Taiwan, took place aboard a Japanese warship.3

However, the Taiwanese didn't like the idea of being Unilaterally incorporated into Japan, and on 25 May 1895, they established the Taiwan Republic as the first independent republic in Asia. But, a few days later, a Japanese military force of over 12,000 soldiers invaded Northern Taiwan. On 21 October 1895, more Japanese soldiers invaded Tainan, the south capital of the nascent Taiwan Republic, thus ending its short life.9

The Japanese occupation of Taiwan was harsh and the Japanese set out to convert the people of Taiwan to the Japanese way of life. The Taiwanese educational system was built up to the same level as in Japan with Japanese as the primary language. The infrastructure including railways, roads, ports and industry were extensively developed to Japanese specifications. In the 1930’s, the east and south-east part of Taiwan was made accessible by road and rail which enabled Japanese forces to finally suppress the most rebellious of the native Taiwanese aboriginal tribes.

Japan colonized Taiwan for 50 years until the end of World War II. Six years after the war ended, In September of 1951, Japan signed a Peace Treaty in San Francisco,2 renouncing all its rights and claims to Taiwan and effectively handing Taiwan over to the Allied forces with USA as the principal occupying power. Neither of the opposing sides in the Chinese Civil War, the ROC, “Republic of China” (right-wing extremist Chinese Kuomintang Party) or the PRC, “Peoples Republic of China” (left-wing extremist Chinese Communist Party) were invited to be a signatory of this Peace Treaty.

The ROC dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had tried to grab Taiwan as Chinese war booty at the end of the WWII. However, General MacArthur only specified that Japanese forces within China (excluding Manchuria), Formosa and French Indo-China north of 16 north latitude shall surrender to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, as a commander acting on behalf of the Allied Powers. In fact, the Japanese on Taiwan initially surrendered to the American forces, who along with other allied forces began landing in Taiwan. Forty six days after the surrender, a Chinese air force Col. Become the first ROC official to set foot on Taiwan. At No point was the ROC ever granted any territorial Rights to Taiwan. The ROC finally sent some 1,000 Chinese gendarmes ferried across the Formosa Strait in United States commandeered Japanese ships to “help” in this process.3,4

However, the Kuomintang ROC was soon very preoccupied with the Chinese Civil War raging between them and the Communist PRC. The PRC began to win the war and were confining the ROC to a smaller and smaller area of China. To avoid complete capitulation, Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek launched a full-scale invasion of Taiwan and over two million Chinese ROC soldiers and over one million elitist Chinese ROC supporters fled from China to Taiwan.

The USA was caught in a quandary, they had already granted Korea, which Japan had occupied for 40 years, its independence. Taiwan was even more deserving of its independence from Japan with nearly 7 million ethnic Taiwanese people. However, the Chinese ROC had now brutally occupied Taiwan with the USA and other allied military forces in Taiwan doing little or nothing to constrain the raping and pillaging by the Chinese ROC soldiers. In order to suppress public demonstrations and dissent by the protesting Taiwanese, the Chinese ROC soldiers massacred over 30,000 innocent unarmed Taiwanese and imprisoned another 200,000. (The infamous February 28, 1947, “228” Massacre is a horrific example).

Without any basis in international law, the ROC now claimed that Taiwan was a province of China and that the ROC remained the true government of all China, that the ROC was just temporarily operating from the self-declared “New” province of Taiwan, until they could expel the PRC Communists and return to China.

The USA not wanting to recognize the PRC Communist government in China turned a blind eye to the ROC’s rape of the Taiwanese people and accepted for the sake of expediency, the ROC’s military occupation of Taiwan. Although the USA continued to maintain a substantial military presence in Taiwan, the USA never officially transferred to the ROC, any of the rights and claims to Taiwan, that under internal law were legally ceded to USA by Japan, in the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty.

However, the brutal military dictatorship of the ROC finally turned the USA’s stomach. Concurrent with the USA recognition of the PRC in 1979, the USA closed their military bases in Taiwan, pulled almost all of the USA forces out of Taiwan, and told the ROC, that the USA would no longer be able to recognize the ROC as the government of China. Furthermore, the USA told the ROC that unless they discontinued Martial Law and cut back on the violent repression against Taiwanese dissidents, the USA would not continue to protect the ROC from their PRC countrymen.

As the ROC Kuomintang elite became rich from their plunder of the Taiwanese people, many emigrated to the USA, Canada and Europe. Untold Billions of dollars were secreted abroad by the ROC Kuomintang Party apparatchiks.

Today, Taiwan has a population of 23 million, of which, less than 2 million are Chinese remnants of the ROC invaders.

With the relaxation of Martial Law, the Taiwanese were finally able to vote the Chinese Kuomintang Party out of power and get a Taiwanese President elected. The Chinese Communist PRC threatened the Taiwanese President that if he tried to hold a referendum on Taiwanese Independence they would attack, and to backup their threats, the PRC actually fired guided missiles into the sea near Taipei. The USA also warned the Taiwanese President that if he held a referendum and declared independence, the USA would likely suspend sales of defensive arms and might not honor its agreement to defend Taiwan against a Chinese Communist invasion.

The ROC Kuomintang Party was secretly entrenched and buried in all sections of the government. Financed by billions in party funds hidden overseas, they undermined and undercut the Taiwanese President’s administration and falsely played on the fears of the Taiwanese people, until finally the Kuomintang Party could “buy” a new election and retake control of the government.

Today, the Kuomintang Party doesn’t secretly assassinate dissidents in Taiwan or in USA as they used to. Instead, they use their control of the police, the bureaucracy and the courts to not only wrongfully imprison our Taiwanese Ex-President and other members of his administration, but also bury Taiwanese independence supporters and activists, in a legal morass of capricious and discriminatory regulations and rulings.

Now, the ROC Chinese Kuomintang Party no longer dreams of taking back control of China from the PRC. Instead, they now conspire with the PRC to sell out Taiwan for even more wealth and privileges, to be granted them in their Chinese motherland as a reward by the PRC, than they have already stolen from Taiwan.

The growing alignment between the ROC and the PRC must be stopped. Hold a free referendum and free the Taiwanese people from Chinese oppression.

Respectfully,

Reference Materials:

1. Treaty of Shimonoseki; http://www.taiwandocuments.org/shimonoseki01.htm

2. Treaty of Peace with Japan http://www.taiwandocuments.org/sanfrancisco01.htm - Article 2

3. Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, General Order no. One
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/surrender05.htm - MILITARY AND NAVAL

4. The Surrender of Japanese Forces in China, Indochina, and Formosa
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/japansurrender.htm - Formosa

5. Diamond, J.M., Taiwan’s Gift to the World , Nature, v. 403, pp. 709-710, 2000
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v403/n6771/full/403709a0.html

6. Pacific people spread from Taiwan. The University of Auckland, 23 January 2009
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/template/news_item.jsp?cid=24590

7. Maori Origins (27/03/2003); http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s823810.htm

8. The origin of Minnan and Hakka, the so-called "Taiwanese", inferred by HLA study.
Tissue Antigens. 2001 Mar;57(3):192-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11285126

9. Taiwan's 400 years of history, http://www.taiwandc.org/hst-1624.htm

10. The Formosan Encounter - Notes on Formosan’s Aboriginal Society: A Selection of Documents from Dutch Archival Sources” Volume I, II and III. Edited by Leonard Blusse & Natalie Everts.