Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/08/18
By: Emerson Lim

Taipei, Aug. 18 (CNA) The Taiwan Action Party Alliance (TAPA) was launched Sunday in Taipei, with the main goal of making Taiwan a normal, independent country, its leaders said.

As part of that goal, the party said, it will change the country's official name from the Republic of China to the Republic of Taiwan, if it gains power.

"Our mission is to encourage everyone to be proud Taiwanese, get rid of China's threats, and accomplish the goal of one country on each side (of the Taiwan Strait)," TAPA said in its declaration at the launch.

The party's leader Yang Chyi-wen (楊其文), former president of Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), said at the ceremony that TAPA aims to transform Taiwan into a "normal and independent" country.    [FULL  STORY]