It will be the first time that a political party in Taiwan will be verboten.
Good riddance. I saw they prosecuted a radio host and his wife this week for taking millions over a decade or two. They are simply agents of the CCP.
Next step taken to disband this outfit.
Guy
I 10/10 agree that Taiwan is Taiwan.
Taiwan needs to remember that it does not, officially, see itself this way.
There was another article I just read where the MOE was unhappy that a Kaohsiung professor had ‘Taiwan Province, China’ on their business card and they need to amend it to include the country’s name (and didn’t clarify what they meant by that).
This would simply result in the business card to be amended to be ‘Taiwan province, Republic of China’ - a meaningless change.
The first article of the act governing relations between people of the Taiwan area and the mainland area reads
This Act is specially enacted for the purposes of ensuring the security and public welfare in the Taiwan Area, regulating dealings between the peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area, and handling legal matters arising therefrom before national unification.
I don’t believe that that Chinese unification party should exist but it is not fair to disband groups and reprimand people and send mixed messages before legislation is amended.
It does make sense to disband a political party for receiving donations from the PRC though
Well… not the first time. First time since 1996.
The MOI has a number of allegations about this party including that they accepted NT$74 million from the PRC to interfere in elections here. The Ministry’s legal theory is that the party has endangered and harmed Taiwan’s free and democratic constitutional order. They have a long and well-documented history of intimidation, violence, and mob connections going back to at least the Sunflower movement a decade ago. In my view, the Taiwanese government has been very (and rightly so) restrained about acting against them and has tried multiple approaches with less risk.
The Constitutional Court is perfectly capable of balancing the need to protect Taiwan’s democracy against the infringement of the right to freedom of association. They will have to persuaded that the threat and harm are extremely serious to grant the petition.
There are some other parties in Taiwan that should pay heed.
They have also compiled a huge hit list of people for the CCP to kill when China takes over the island. I don’t understand why that kind of behavior is allowed to go on for 30 years.
Wouldn’t a solid middle ground be to go after individuals responsible for said lists rather than a party? Political parties, like companies in a sense, tend to be good at escaping justice based on protectionism.
When politicians assault each other in office, on TV and with recording, how they aren’t in jail for assault is beyond me. Hit lists should also be mandatory time served. Amongst other things.
It’s a crazy world where planning murders is cool, but not paying the proper tax is tyranny.
Grant their wish and send them to China. They can reunite themselves.
Why? The list was on their website.
Then they’ll stop getting paid by their masters in youknowwhere!
From their perspective, it’s best to keep the game going, and the money flowing . . .
Guy
Were the [actual] people that wrote the list arrested and jailed for threatening peoples lives? Or the usual let the shell company take the fall and the individuals get off with a warning?
Isn’t the status quote to get individuals on corruption related charges…? When they do something criminals ND illegal, on camera/record, but doing so during work, it seems more or less OK.
I’m still peeved about the Chinesese KMT putting nails in walls, spray painting and destroying public property. On camera. Amongst many other shoe flying types of issues here.
I digress. It’s nearly a rhetorical… 
Article 5 of the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China provides that the Grand Justices of the Judicial Yuan, in addition to exercising their powers under Article 78 of the Constitution, shall constitute the Constitutional Court to adjudicate cases involving the impeachment of the President and Vice President and the dissolution of unconstitutional political parties. A political party shall be deemed unconstitutional if its goals or activities endanger the existence of the Republic of China or its liberal democratic constitutional order.
If the China Unification Promotion Party meets the legal standard for dissolution, then should the New Party also be dissolved? And what about the more radical pro-independence parties that advocate abolishing the Republic of China and establishing a Republic of Taiwan instead? After all, if the test is whether a party endangers the existence of the Republic of China, then extreme pro-independence parties likewise reject the continued existence of the Republic of China. Should they also be considered unconstitutional and subject to dissolution?
Your latter statement re pro independence parties depends on the prevailing definition and concept of what the ROC is. This has changed over time.
To be honest, both extreme pro-unification parties and extreme pro-independence parties seek to deny the continued existence of the Republic of China. The difference is that the former want Taiwan to become a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China, while the latter want Taiwan to become an independent Republic of Taiwan.
Let’s be honest here though, if there wasn’t the threat of invasion, the ROC would have ceased to exist in the late 1980’s and it would have become the Republic of Taiwan. The current consitutional arrangement is a legal fiction.
I acknowledge that, without the military threat posed by the People’s Liberation Army, the ROC would probably have eventually been replaced by a Republic of Taiwan. However, I do not believe that most Taiwanese wanted to establish a Republic of Taiwan in the late 1980s. After all, support for Taiwanese independence was still a minority position throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It is worth remembering that when Chen Shui-bian ran for president in 2000, he won less than 40 percent of the vote, while the combined support for the pan-blue camp exceeded 60 percent, and most pan-blue supporters identified with and accepted the ROC. In my view, Taiwanese independence did not become the dominant current of public opinion until at least after 2008.
I’d go back even earlier. If CKS wasn’t such a stubborn twit, the change could have happened in the 1970s, our country could be properly named, and Taiwan would definitely have a seat at the UN (though not on the Security Council).
Of course none of that happened, and here we are! 
Guy
The political situation you reference was shaped by the threat of china. Along with the brainwashing of the kmt.