Taiwan's former independence-minded president, Chen Shui-bian:

To the glee of his former arch-enemies in Beijing, Chen has been

sentenced to life in prison for embezzlement, money laundering

and taking bribes. China regards Taiwan as a renegade province.

 

 

Wen Wei Po, Hong Kong

Disgraced Taiwan Leader Sues Obama to 'Retake' Island

 

Translated By Jimmy Chow

 

September 25, 2009

 

Hong Kong - Wen Wei Po - Original Article (Chinese)

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the man who lost China to the communists and fled to Taiwan: Was he ruling the island under American juristiction? And does that juristiction continue? Whether this is legallty the case or not, President Obama is unlikely to take control the island as Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian would prefer.   BBC NEWS VIDEO: Taiwan's former president sentenced to life in prison for corruption, Sept. 11, 00:01:51

Having been detained for 267 days (as of Sept. 24), Chen Shui-bian has made his next move. Calling himself the “former president of the Republic of China government in exile,” he has decided to sue U.S. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, charging that the United States has a duty to resume jurisdiction over Taiwan. And if it did, Chen says that he would be willing to go to the United States and testify [as to the legality of U.S. jurisdiction]. Netizens, however, have mocked Chen, suggesting that perhaps he should write to aliens asking them to save the planet.

 

[Editor's Note: Chen claims in his affidavit that Taiwanese territory remains under U.S. military occupation, which he says Obama and Gates have failed to enforce. Ceded to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, Formosa (the old name for Taiwan) and the Pescadores were reoccupied by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops under a special order issued in 1945 by General Douglas MacArthur, who was the supreme commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific. Chen alleges that Chiang ruled Taiwan on behalf of the United States].

 

U.S. State Department officials said that as far as Chen’s petition to Obama, they had no response. The news has, however, generated a lot of discussion on the Internet. Some people suggest that Chen should simply write to NASA, or that he's carrying a confidential letter in his pocket asking E.T. to call home for aliens to save the Earth. Still others wonder whether Chen, having been locked up so long, is beginning to lose his mind. He's really got his head in the clouds to the point that he can't breath. Since he says Taiwan is an exiled government, then why would he be that exiled government's "president" for eight years and steal eight year's of that government's money? 

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Regarding Chen’s lawsuit against Obama and others, Democratic Progressive Party spokesman Cheng Wen-tsang said that the DPP was quite surprised and didn’t understand what Chen was thinking. He said that the DPP’s stance and Chen’s appeal for the U.S. to "occupy Taiwan” weren’t synonymous.

 

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[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US October 8, 12:05am]