The Taiwan Democratic Communist Party was a minor political party in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. It was founded on 1 October 2009 by Chen Tien-fu, cousin of former

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Chen Shui-bian. The party's stated purpose was to create a distinct form of

socialism Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

in Taiwan and work towards unification with the People's Republic of China.

History

Chen Tien-fu co-founded the Communist Party of the Republic of China on 31 March 2009 and became its general secretary. However, five months later, Chen announced that he and his supporters could not accept the use of "Republic of China" in the party's name, and that he did not have any real power as general secretary. The Communist Party of the Republic of China subsequently expelled Chen from the party on 25 September 2009, prompting Chen to establish the Taiwan Democratic Communist Party on 1 October 2009 as a rival party. Chen later said that he specifically chose the date 1 October 2009 because it was the 60th anniversary of the

establishment of the People's Republic of China The founding of the People's Republic of China was formally proclaimed by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on October 1, 1949, at 3:00 pm in Tiananmen Square in Peking, now Beijing (formerly Beiping), the new ca ...

. On 18 September 2013,

Democratic Progressive Party The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a Taiwanese nationalist and centre-left political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Controlling both the Republic of China presidency and the unicameral Legislative Yuan, it is the majori ...

legislator

Tien Chiu-chin Tien Chiu-chin (; born 27 May 1954) is a Taiwanese politician. She served in the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2016, and later that year became the deputy minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council. Tien was nominated a member of the Co ...

announced that she had been invited by the Taiwan Democratic Communist Party to attend a National Day of the People's Republic of China celebration in

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. Tien criticized the invitation as an attempt by the Chinese government "to use Taiwan's freedom of speech and freedom of association to create a united front in Taiwan." Tien further said that the invitation was "unacceptable" and that action should be taken. Huang Li-hsin, the director of Taiwan's at the time, commented that the Act Governing Cross-Strait Relations only prohibited Taiwanese citizens from holding public office in mainland China, and that there were no restrictions preventing Taiwanese political parties from hosting or participating in pro-PRC events in mainland China. The Taiwan Democratic Communist Party later announced on 25 September 2013 that they had cancelled their National Day celebration in Shanghai. In an interview with Taiwan's Central News Agency, Chen said that the decision was made due to "many unspeakable reasons" but declined to elaborate. The party was dissolved by the

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on 29 April 2020.

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