Taiwan

There are two USI member organizations dedicated to promoting closer ties between the United States and Taiwan, which is also called Formosa.

One is the Formosan Statehood Movement, which advocates full membership in the Union as a State. The other is the USA-Taiwan Foundation, which advocates a "commonwealth", territorial relationship like that pioneered by Puerto Rico in 1952 and then emulated by the Northern Marianas, formerly part of the liquidated Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The "commonwealth" relationship is called in Spanish "Estado Libre Asociado" - Free Associated State - and the degree of association between the U.S. and any future "commonwealth" would be subject to negotiation and approval by Congress and the people of any area brought into such a relationship. The characteristics of statehood are very clearly set out in the Constitution. Tho some states use the term "Commonwealth" in their official name (e.g., "Commonwealth of Massachusetts"), for constitutional purposes they are states like all the rest.

The USA-Taiwan Commonwealth Foundation has its own website at www.usataiwan.org.

The Formosan Statehood Movement is developing a website. In the interim, USI member the Expansionist Party of the United States is hosting FSM's presentation on its site.

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