Taiwan Independence Movements since 1970

Peng's escape was a turning point in the movement. On January 15, 1970, the Taiwan Freedom League in Taiwan, the Taiwan Cheng- lien Independence League in Japan, the United Formosans in America for Independence (successor to UFI) in the U.S. and Brazil, the Committee for Human Rights in Formosa in Canada, and the Union for Formosa's Independence in Europe all joined and came together under the banner of World United Formosans for Independence (WUFI). WUFI established …

…In sum, the Taiwan independence movement is based upon the fact that fifty years of Japanese colonization and modernization policies have forged a new Taiwanese nation distinctly separate form the exploitation and the oppression of the Taiwanese by Chiang's Nationalist government, the emergence of the People's Republic of China in the international political stage; and the expulsion of the Nationalist government from the U.N. all prompted and revitalized the activities of the independence movement.