在台灣人與台美人的政治圈中, 具有一定的知名度的美國媒體人Mr. Michael Richardson最近為文, 引述在1978年4月解密的一份John Foster Dulles國務卿在美國國會聽證會作證時, 向參議員Theodore Francis Green of Rhodes Island解釋美國政府當年為何沒有支持Formosans建立A Republic of Formosa的機密資料
david chou
在台灣人與台美人的政治圈中, 具有一定的知名度的美國媒體人Mr. Michael Richardson最近為文, 引述在1978年4月解密的一份John Foster Dulles國務卿在美國國會聽證會作證時, 向參議員Theodore Francis Green of Rhodes Island解釋美國政府當年為何沒有支持Formosans建立A Republic of Formosa的機密資料 (I)
在我進入正題或主題之前, 我先說點題外話.
溫文謙和的Mike [美國National Examiner的記者] 是所謂的 "台灣民政府" ("TCG") 的熱烈支持者. 他在過去那些年, 報導"TCG"不遺餘力. 但他透過外國媒體的報導, 也知道我早在1990年代就已創建了台灣建州運動, 比 "林記政治金光黨" 的出現還早了十年, 因此, 他與夫人來台灣時, 也透過他人的安排, 與我會見. 在 "林記政治金光黨" 的首謀與共謀被起訴後, 他為文介紹亟待振興的台灣建州運動 [Appendix I], 之後, 又在一篇報導中, 公開主張 "未來台灣人民在進行自決時, 也必須把 '台灣成為美國一州' 列為選項" ("Self-determination should also provide for a USA statehood option to the people of Taiwan." ).
[Appendix II]
[to be continued]
David Chou
Founder
Formosa Statehood Movement
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Appendix I
[Mike把Formosa Statehood Movement寫成 "Taiwan State Movement"]
Statehood activist David Chou says it is time to talk about Taiwan becoming 51st state
Michael Richardson richardsonreports
Posted on May 7, 2021
As Puerto Rico nears a statehood vote in Washington, the necessary votes do not seem to be there and agitation for a vote has been quiet. Statehood for the District of Columbia is a perpetual question that never seems to advance. Now, on the other side of the globe, there seems to be growing interest in statehood for Taiwan.
The unresolved fate of Formosa, now called Taiwan, caught up in a “strategic ambiguity” that the District of Columbia United States Court of Appeals has declared a condition of “political purgatory” is increasingly in the news. For a long time many people have failed to realize or understand how and why the people of Taiwan are stateless, the result of decades of propaganda and false history fed to the public by the United States, the People’s Republic of China, and the exiled Republic of China.
Taiwan, banned from the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and even the Olympics unless it calls itself “Chinese Taipei” in the games, has been a colony of some foreign power for four centuries. Since World War II the island has been occupied by an exiled Chinese Nationalist government installed by the United States as a caretaker regime. Unfortunately, the Cold War followed World War II and Formosa fell into an abyss under four decades of harsh martial law, sternly administered by the Republic of China in-exile. The United States looked the other way, aware of the atrocities committed by the ROC against innocent Formosans, because the ROC was an ally against “Red China” and communism.
The sovereignty of the former Japanese colony was to be decided at the San Francisco Peace Treaty that ended World War II with Japan. However, the Korean War was raging and President Harry Truman decided it was not time to resolve the international status of the island, leaving dictator Chiang Kai-shek in charge. Over the long years of uncertainty, the name Formosa fell into disuse in favor of Taiwan as the history of it all dimmed with the passage of time.
Now, the People’s Republic of China wants to finish the civil war and conquer Taiwan which it claims is a rebellious province. The entrenched ROC has already brutally demonstrated the lengths it will go to remain in power. Taiwanese independence advocates have long had to battle opposition from China, opposition from the ROC, and even opposition from the United States. What to do?
Activist David Chou has an idea, give the Taiwanese people the option of statehood in the United States of America. Sound far-fetched? Maybe not.
Chou founded the Taiwan State Movement in 1994 and has consistently advocated since then that Taiwan be under the political custody of the United States. Chou wants the future determined through referendum and self-determination and seeks a phased but comprehensive integration with America.
The statehood activists point out that it is a non-military solution to China’s aggressive threats and in some manner is compensation to the Formosans who suffered under the ROC while the USA did nothing. The statehood proponents cite Hawaii’s progress as a state and argue statehood would boost both economies giving America a true doorway to Asian markets.
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Dulles once said, “As the main victorious country against Japan, the United States has interests in the ultimate future of Taiwan and that “the U.S. could have made
legal claims against Taiwan.”
Appendix II
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken restates United States opposition to self-determination for people of Taiwan with PRC versus ROC paradigm
Michael Richardson richardsonreports
Posted on June 23, 2023
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sought to assure the People’s Republic of China that it still had its foot in the door regarding Taiwan, formerly called Formosa, while showing support for the Republic of China in-exile, which currently rules the island of 23.5 million. A statement issued while Blinken was in China included mention of Taiwan.
Right-wing pundits gasped and declared Blinken had given a green light for PRC invasion of Taiwan. However, Blinken actually said nothing new but instead reaffirmed longstanding American doubletalk on Taiwan.
“On Taiwan, I reiterated a longstanding US ‘One China’ policy. That policy has not changed. It’s guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, three joint communiques, the six assurances. We do not support Taiwan independence. We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. We continue to expect the peaceful resolution to cross-strait differences.”
The “One China” policy that Blinken talks about means that the USA agrees that the PRC is one China. The “One China” principle that the PRC talks about means that Taiwan is part of China. Two different “One China” schemes that do not leave room for the Taiwanese people to decide their own future.
The Taiwan Relations Act is a unique federal statute that governs American relations with the former Formosa and constitutes a Congressional restraint on presidential foreign policy since the United States does not recognize the ROC sovereignty of Taiwan. If you are a little confused about it all that is by intent. Taiwan’s unresolved international status has been in limbo in a cloud of strategic ambiguity since the end of World War II.
The three joint communiques and six assurances are merely executive proclamations while Blinken conveniently ignored the San Francisco Peace Treaty which left the USA as the principal occupying post-war power.
Blinken talks about “both sides” meaning the PRC and the ROC. Yet what about the Taiwanese?
Blinken says, “We do not support Taiwan independence.”
Blinken’s status quo refrain denies self-determination by limiting options to either the PRC or the ROC. If the people of Taiwan want independence they must battle the PRC, the ROC, and also the USA. A formidable task indeed amid decades of confusion.
The United States should not oppose self-determination for the island occupied by an exiled Chinese government that still practices hero worship of dictator Chiang Kai-shek who ravaged Formosa. If the USA cannot see its way to support Taiwan independence then it should at least be neutral.
david chou
在台灣人與台美人的政治圈中, 具有一定的知名度的美國媒體人Mr. Michael Richardson最近為文, 引述在1978年4月解密的一份John Foster Dulles國務卿在美國國會聽證會作證時, 向參議員Theodore Francis Green of Rhodes Island解釋美國政府當年為何沒有支持Formosans建立A Republic of Formosa的機密資料 (II)
我現在進入正題, 也就是要談當年Eisenhower-Dulles為何不支持若干福爾摩沙菁英 [在228大屠殺之後] 所提出的 "Republic of Formosa" 的提案或構想. 在1950年代上半期, 我們發現, 一些共和黨的菁英, 包括John Foster Dulles與若干參議員, 對被蔣該死流亡統治集團佔領的台灣島上的台灣本土人(Formosan people, Native Taiwanese)的處境是很同情的, 他們有的主張或贊同由Formosan people建立 a Republic of Formosa, 有的主張台灣由聯合國託管 [即由美國直接託管].
Sen. Theodore Francis Green of Rhodes Island就是當年非常同情台灣本土人並主張由台灣本土人來建立 "台灣共和國" 的美國政界菁英之一, 我現在藉Mr. Michael Richardson的一篇報導, 來讓鄉親們看Dulles國務卿與Sen. Green這兩位都同情台灣本土人的美國政界人士就 "Republic of Formosa" 的提案或構想的對話. [Appendix]
Senator Green: “But if there could be established a Republic of Formosa, it would solve a great many of the difficulties. We wouldn’t have to be dealing with a de jure as distinguished from defacto government of China.”
Secretary Dulles: “It would solve some problems, but it would also create some others. That is often the case, unfortunately.”
Senator Green: “Well, wouldn’t it be to our advantage in case there were a Formosan Republic, just as it is to our advantage in dealing with the Philippines, if we dealt with independent Formosa in a treaty? Wouldn’t it be better at lease theoretically than dealing with an offshoot of the China mainland?”
Secretary Dulles: “Well, unfortunately we have to deal with a condition and not a theory here. It might theoretically be a good idea, but before you can have a Republic of Formosa to recognize, you have got to have one, and how are you going to create one?”
“Today, you can only do that by going in by force of arms and over-throwing the forces of the Republic of China that are there, where we have spend many hundreds of millions of dollars to equip them and strengthen them, train them for combat, and I don’t know that it would solve many problems for us now to undertake in defiance of their wishes and the accepted situation there to go in and set up an independent Formosan regime which, as I say, would require if we did to fight the 400,000 or 500,000 troops of the Republic of China that are there with our help and with our equipment.”
Green continued to press Dulles about self-determination for the Formosan people.
Senator Green: “I understand. I was just wondering whether sufficient consideration had been given towards recognizing a Republic of Formosa governed by the Formosans.”
Secretary Dulles: “No serious consideration has been given to that, for the reason that I indicate: that that would involve us in direct antagonism with our friends and allies on the island.”
Mike的報導所引述的史料 [這部文獻或史料包含了許多史料, 如有關The Formosa Resolution的參院外委會與軍委會聯合聽證會的記錄], 我過去常引用, 用心的鄉親不會陌生. 這項史料是在1955年初參議院外交委員會為批准 "美蔣共同防禦條約" 而邀請John Foster Dulles國務卿到聽證會作證所發表的證詞的片段, 不過, 我很少用這幾段, 我常用的是另一段, 即Secretary Dulles: “------- Chiang theoretically I suppose has a government in exile sitting in an alien land of Formosa.” [這一段證詞十分重要, 也十分精采, 若蔣該死在世時, 就知道JFD說的這句話, 他肯定當場因腦充血而暴斃.]
[to be continued]
Sen. Theodore Francis Green of Rhodes Island就是當年非常同情台灣本土人並主張由台灣本土人來建立 "台灣共和國" 的美國政界菁英之一, 我現在藉Mr. Michael Richardson的一篇報導, 來讓鄉親們看Dulles國務卿與Sen. Green這兩位都同情台灣本土人的美國政界人士就 "Republic of Formosa" 的提案或構想的對話. [Appendix]
Senator Green: “But if there could be established a Republic of Formosa, it would solve a great many of the difficulties. We wouldn’t have to be dealing with a de jure as distinguished from defacto government of China.”
Secretary Dulles: “It would solve some problems, but it would also create some others. That is often the case, unfortunately.”
Senator Green: “Well, wouldn’t it be to our advantage in case there were a Formosan Republic, just as it is to our advantage in dealing with the Philippines, if we dealt with independent Formosa in a treaty? Wouldn’t it be better at lease theoretically than dealing with an offshoot of the China mainland?”
Secretary Dulles: “Well, unfortunately we have to deal with a condition and not a theory here. It might theoretically be a good idea, but before you can have a Republic of Formosa to recognize, you have got to have one, and how are you going to create one?”
“Today, you can only do that by going in by force of arms and over-throwing the forces of the Republic of China that are there, where we have spend many hundreds of millions of dollars to equip them and strengthen them, train them for combat, and I don’t know that it would solve many problems for us now to undertake in defiance of their wishes and the accepted situation there to go in and set up an independent Formosan regime which, as I say, would require if we did to fight the 400,000 or 500,000 troops of the Republic of China that are there with our help and with our equipment.”
Green continued to press Dulles about self-determination for the Formosan people.
Senator Green: “I understand. I was just wondering whether sufficient consideration had been given towards recognizing a Republic of Formosa governed by the Formosans.”
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Appendix
Dulles explanation why Taiwan’s unresolved sovereignty lacks self-determination
Michael Richardson richardsonreports
Posted on September 9, 2025
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Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles blamed the Republic of China in-exile for the lack of self-determination of Taiwan. (credit: Public domain)
On January 24, 1955, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles testified in a closed door session to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A primary topic was what officials called the Formosa problem—what to do about Chiang Kai-shek. The confidential session was declassified in April 1978, however, little public attention has been given to the candid admission of Dulles about the unresolved sovereignty of Taiwan.
Dulles was questioned by Senator Theodore Green of Rhode Island and Senator Walter George of Georgia, the Chairman of the Committee.
Senator Green: “But if there could be established a Republic of Formosa, it would solve a great many of the difficulties. We wouldn’t have to be dealing with a de jure as distinguished from defacto government of China.”
Secretary Dulles: “It would solve some problems, but it would also create some others. That is often the case, unfortunately.”
Senator Green: “Well, wouldn’t it be to our advantage in case there were a Formosan Republic, just as it is to our advantage in dealing with the Philippines, if we dealt with independent Formosa in a treaty? Wouldn’t it be better at lease theoretically than dealing with an offshoot of the China mainland?”
Secretary Dulles: “Well, unfortunately we have to deal with a condition and not a theory here. It might theoretically be a good idea, but before you can have a Republic of Formosa to recognize, you have got to have one, and how are you going to create one?”
“Today, you can only do that by going in by force of arms and over-throwing the forces of the Republic of China that are there, where we have spend many hundreds of millions of dollars to equip them and strengthen them, train them for combat, and I don’t know that it would solve many problems for us now to undertake in defiance of their wishes and the accepted situation there to go in and set up an independent Formosan regime which, as I say, would require if we did to fight the 400,000 or 500,000 troops of the Republic of China that are there with our help and with our equipment.”
Green continued to press Dulles about self-determination for the Formosan people.
Senator Green: “I understand. I was just wondering whether sufficient consideration had been given towards recognizing a Republic of Formosa governed by the Formosans.”
Secretary Dulles: “No serious consideration has been given to that, for the reason that I indicate: that that would involve us in direct antagonism with our friends and allies on the island.”
Chairman George: “It would also cede the United Nations seat to China then, would it not, Mr. Secretary, if we by force or otherwise set up a Formosa Republic? Communist China would then take over.”
Secretary Dulles: “That would certainly be a strong inducement in that direction. Chiang theoretically I suppose has a government in exile sitting in an alien land of Formosa.”
Seventy years later, the exiled Republic of China still occupies the island while self-determination remains an unfulfilled promise to the long-suffering residents.
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