What should you do when two different governments claim to have authority over your country? Tell everyone that a third government secretly has the real claim to power! Then, start taking people’s money so you can issue your own license plates and government ID cards. What could go wrong?
Featured image: The Taipei State Office of the Taiwan Civil Government in 2017. The couple in the center is Lin Zhisheng and Lin Zi’an. (Image source)
A truck sporting a license plate issues by the Taiwan Civil Government. (Image source)
A close-up of the front of the Taipei State Office of the Taiwan Civil Government, showing off how much these guys like the American flag. (Image source)
The same building in 2019, after the Lins’ arrest. (Image source)
Sources
- Official website of the Taiwan Civil Government
- Official website of the Taiwan Civil Government – Key Statements by Executive Branch Officials
- Comparative Colonialsims: Variations in Japanese Colonial in Taiwan and Korea,1895 ‐ 1945
- Treaty of Peace with Japan (with two declarations). Signed at San Francisco, on 8 September 1951
- China’s Republic (New Approaches to Asian History, Series Number 2)
- US Department of State: U.S. Relations With Taiwan Fact Sheet
- US Department of State: Immigration and Nationality Act Section 212
- US Department of State: Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989: Terrorism Definition
- Criminal Code of the Republic of China
- Picture of Tsai Ing-wen with a bazooka
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- Forget the ROC and Independence – Meet the ‘Real’ Government of Taiwan
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- 16-5149 – Roger Lin, et al v. USA, et al
- Taiwan Civil Government suspects detained
- Taiwan Civil Government head facing more charges
- Taiwan Civil Government founder gets 19 years for fraud
