Considering Chen’s lengthy and excellent relationship with the Vatican, FAPA implores him, when in Rome, to call upon the Pope to move toward “dual recognition” of Taiwan and China.
FAPA, together with other Taiwanese-American organizations, is petitioning the census bureau to include a check box for “Taiwanese” under the race question on the next US census in 2020.
We firmly believe that Taiwan is a free and democratic country unto itself – an independent and autonomous nation with its own democratically elected government. Wu’s actions in Beijing dangerously undermine Taiwan’s already-shrinking international space.