The Peasant Party regards the two belligerent parties of the
Chinese Civil War (the People's Republic of China versus the Republic of China; or the
Chinese Communist Party versus the
Kuomintang) should recognize each other as sovereign States, similar to the model adopted by the
Federal Republic of Germany and the
German Democratic Republic. It predicts that the two parties will reunite when the economic conditions become similar. However, the Peasant Party does not consider the islands of
Taiwan and the
Pescadores part of China, because they consider the
Republic of Formosa of 1895 recovers
de jure sovereignty over these islands, after the surrender of Japan following
World War 2. This led them to assert that the current sovereign territory of the Republic of China only covers
Quemoy and
Matsu (both historically and administratively part of
Fujian). It regards 'the Taiwanese people' to be all who were born in Taiwan ('
jus soli'). It considers Taiwan to be (almost)
terra nullius, but acknowledges that several states have exercised sovereignty over Taiwan, seemingly in an attempt to counter any claim of sovereignty by arguments of
jus sanguinis. Economically, the party believes that the government should protect the basic income of the farmers (
peasants); that Taiwan's membership of the
World Trade Organization is not an excuse to give up agriculture, allowing a flood of imported agricultural produce. It supports a constitutional basis for
ecological principles, and that constitutional reform should be 'internationalized'. The Peasant Party has been sending groups to pay tribute to the
Yasukuni Shrine in Japan, to pay tributes to the 30 308 Taiwanese soldiers drafted during the Japanese rule over Taiwan. In June 2005, the Peasant Party joined the staunchly independence-leaning
Taiwan Defense Alliance. ==Electoral history==