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First, thank you very much for coming here to explore information about Taiwan!
To make the world notice important truths about Taiwan, we really need friends of great curiosity and desire for knowledge like you. So, please allow us to express our sincere gratitude to you!
We believe that a very special passport led you here:
You know that the passport holder comes from a place called "Taiwan" (also called "Republic of China" or "Republic of China Taiwan". However, on the passport, there is a sticker says "台灣澎湖.盟軍佔領區|Formosa & the Pescadores Territories Under WWII Allied Occupation", a circular sticker having four red vertical lines against white background, a sticker says "TAIWAN GOVERNING AUTHORITIES", and that very QR Code sticker with English word "EXPLANATION" underneath, which brought you here.
What is the original shape of this passport? What do these stickers mean? Why would the passport holder decide to use these stickers?
Let's find out the answers to these questions in the following sections!
Before applying these stickers, the original front cover of this passport would be in one of the following layouts. Old version was used before January 1st, 2021, the new one became standard since that day.
As you can see, in both versions, there are four Chinese characters "中華民國" (A) and the national emblem of the Republic of China (B). In old version, the English translation of "中華民國", i.e. the REPUBLIC OF CHINA (C), is clearly printed, while in the new version, the English translation of "中華民國" is put in a loop surrounding the national emblem of the Republic of China (D).
In both versions, the English translation of 台灣, i.e. TAIWAN, is printed, however its font size in the new version (F) is much larger than in the old version (E).
Then, what is wrong in these original layouts of the passport? Why would the passport holder try to cover its texts and images with stickers?
That is because the original design of the passport contains at least the following problems:
Due to the issues mentioned above, the passport front cover designs and elements of both old and new versions not only fail to precisely reflect the important facts in history, reality and international law that "'Taiwan (including Penghu)' is not part of China", "the entity issuing this passport is the 'governing authorties on Taiwan' that currently administers 'Taiwan' and it does not own the territorial sovereignty to 'F&P'", but also lead to a misconception that the "Republic of China = Taiwan". Accordingly, we believe that the mistakes in the passport layout should be corrected and the information reflecting the actual legal status of "Taiwan" should be provided with the help of stickers.
What would come to mind when you hear the term "Taiwan"? Besides delicious food and semiconductors, its worrisome relation with "China" may be the answer. Besides "China regards 'Taiwan (including Penghu)' as a breakaway/rebellious province", you may also think that "China constantly plunders the diplomatic ties of 'Taiwan'", "'Taiwan' faces severe suppression from China in the international community", etc.
As for why there is such tension between "Taiwan" and "China", your information sources may mention that "Taiwan (including Penghu)" was "restored" to Republic of China (or Chinese Kuomintang (國民黨)/Chiang Kai-Shek of China) after the defeated Japan surrendered in 1945, then the Republic of China / Chinese Kuomintang (國民黨)/Chiang Kai-Shek of China retreated to "Taiwan (including Penghu)" due to its lost in the China civil war, and continued its competition for the status of legitimate government of China with the People's Republic of China established in 1949, and "Taiwan" left UN in 1971 because the "Resolution No. 2758" of the UN Assembly and constantly faces suppression and military threat from China. Furthermore, "Taiwan (including Penghu)" wants to leave China for independence and China aims to reunify "Taiwan (including Penghu)", etc.
However, these descriptions about "Taiwan" are not entirely correct. Have you ever wondered: "If 'Taiwan (including Penghu)' is a place controlled by the Republic of China (or Chinese Kuomintang (國民黨)/Chiang Kai-Shek of China), then how did the Republic of China become "Taiwan"? That's right. The biggest problem caused by those information describing the "China-Taiwan relations" derives from confusing the "Republic of China" which takes the role of "governing authorities on Taiwan" with the place it controls, i.e. "Taiwan (including Penghu)", and incorrectly put an equal sign between them.
So, what is the actual situation here? Let's draw a timeline together:
We can summarize the above timeline into the following points:
According to the above summaries, in terms of the legal status of "Taiwan (Formosa) & Penghu (the Pescadores)" and the "Republic of China", we can make the following conclusions:
According to the points in the conclusions of international legal status mentioned above, we believe that:
By examining the very special passport in front of you in details, you would find the following four stickers:
台灣澎湖.盟軍佔領區 Sticker![]() |
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Flag of WWII Allies Sticker![]() |
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The Passport Issuer Sticker![]() |
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EXPLANATION QR Code Sticker![]() |
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According to the information provided in the above section ※ The true situation of Taiwan ※, we believe that you would agree that, comparing to the original passport design, a passport covered with these stickers could more correctly and precisely explain where does the passport holder come from (i.e. Taiwan (Formosa) & Penghu (the Pescadores) under the Allies' occupation), who the issuer of this passport actually is, and "the true legal status of Taiwan (including Penghu)", and make more people to understand the truths about 'F&P' in history and international law: "'F&P' is not part of China" and "'F&P' is not a sovereign state yet and is still territories under the WWII Allied occupation".
Basically, people of Taiwan applying above stickers on their passports know "the truth of legal status of 'Taiwan'" quite well and are willing to take actions to establish a sovereign state truly of their own. The passport holder aims to achieve the following goals by applying stickers on passport cover:
Simply put, applying stickers on the passport is an action that we, the inhabitants of "F&P", take to tell the world that "we want to establish a sovereign state truly of our own".
If after reading the above information, you agree with the messages conveyed and the movement of conveying "the truth of legal status of Taiwan" through stickers on passport, we would be very grateful if you could kindly share this page of explanation with your families and friends and allow more people to understand the true international status of "Taiwan", the predicament "Taiwan" is in, and the actual help "Taiwan" really needs.
Also, we hope you can give the passport holder a big "thumb up" and say some encouraging words. That's because after applying these stickers on the passport front cover, the passport holder in front of you may have been harassed by officials at customs when entering/leaving the boarder, questioned the authenticity of the passport, forced to endure unreasonable interrogation, requested to remove stickers, and questioning, verbal insulting, and attacks from other people who do not realize the actual situation due to the deceiving information provided by the Republic of China regime, etc.
Hence, while these are just a few stickers, it requires great courage to put these stickers on passport front cover. So, we hope that you can show your suppor to this courageous "Taiwanese" in front of you to support the continuation of this movement, which is meaningful to both "Taiwan" and the whole world!
You may refer to the following supplementary information for details about the explanation mentioned above: