DPP disagrees with Chen over Taiwan's status

In an affidavit in support of his petition for a writ of certiorari, Chen declared on Tuesday Taiwan is still under U.S. military occupation.

Chen wants certiorari, which is a writ issued from a superior court calling up the record proceeding in an interior court for review.

By presenting the petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Chen is in fact trying to sue President Barack Obama and his Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for failure to keep Taiwan under U.S. military occupation.

“That is not the stand of the Democratic Progressive Party on the status of Taiwan,” Cheng told the press at the DPP Central Office.

The opposition party, Cheng declared, regards Taiwan as an independent, sovereign state, whose future can only be determined by the will of its people.

“We have a rider to our Charter stating it very clearly,” Cheng said. “What President Chen said about the status of Taiwan disagrees with our Charter,” he pointed out.

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