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Friends of Taiwan

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Friends of Taiwan

Friends of Taiwan (台灣之友社) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.

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Source Notes

  • Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
  • Hub: |taiwancenter.org
  • Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone

From the record

  • 覆核（TJJ-A09230700-2, 2026-09-24）：本 slice 文章 31b7081a（〈化作千風—懷念台美人的人權鬥士、台獨先鋒王泰和〉）正文再驗證——1997年王泰和創設台灣之友社、草根路線與FAPA互補之記述確認見於正文，subject 連結為真（無錯鏈、無虛鏈）；2022-07-12 條目已在庫並掛鏈本檔 — SKIP，無新材料。

  • 1997 — Per founder 王泰和’s 2022-07-12 memorial interview, 台灣之友社 (Friends of Taiwan) was founded by 王泰和 (王廷宜) in Los Angeles as a grassroots people-to-people complement to FAPA’s congressional lobbying; Ted Anderson served as its president for over a decade, hosting AIT chairman Richard Bush and John Bolton as speakers (TJJ, 2022-07-12).

  • 2020-06-21 — The memorial 「慟悼王泰和廷宜先生往生」 describes founder 王泰和 (王廷宜) establishing 台灣之友會 (Friend of Taiwan) with like-minded friends to rally mainstream American support for Taiwan, deliberately extending the network to Tibetan and Uyghur anti-totalitarian human-rights activists; his cultural-ally work also included uniting Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Mexican, Tibetan, Uyghur and Taiwanese-Indigenous communities at a Westlake University multicultural festival, and recruiting young students to the cause (TJJ memorial, 2020-06-21; reprinted 2025-12-06 (reprint)).

  • The organization is documented across the TAH corpus in its own right: a self-published introduction in Chinese (台灣之友會簡介, era 2018) and English (A Brief Introduction), its own newsletter (Newsletter of Friends of Taiwan 台灣之友會通訊), and a directory entry (Friends of Taiwan 台灣之友會).

  • 2014-03-01 — 美洲台灣日報 interview “仗義為台灣” profiles president Ted Anderson (video57), corroborating the memorial-interview account of his long presidency; Anderson is also profiled in the TAH Who’s Who record as “a very strong supporter to the T.A. community” ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ff322|TAH #322]]).

  • A local chapter, Friends of Taiwan—Greater St. Louis 聖路易台灣之友會, is recorded in the 2017 TAH directory (directory entry), showing the group extended beyond Los Angeles.

  • Note: the corpus renders the Chinese name both 台灣之友社 (memorial interview) and 台灣之友會 (TAH directory records). HOLD: spelling 社 vs 會 unreconciled.

  • 2021-02-20 — President 蔡英文 attended 「台灣之友會春節聯歡晚宴」 and gave remarks praising Taiwan’s economic growth — an earlier instance of the Taiwan-side Spring Festival banquet later documented for 2022-03-13 (TJJ report, 2021-02-20); same HOLD applies on chapter attribution for the Taiwan-side event.

  • 2025-02 — 台灣之友社 is listed among the co-hosting LA-area 台美社團 of the 2024大洛杉磯228事件追思紀念會暨聯合社團系列活動 (with FAPA-洛杉磯分會, NATMA-南加分會, 台美人歷史協會 and others) — the LA chapter documented as an active 228-commemoration co-organizer (TJJ report).

  • 2025-05-18 — 台灣之友會, alongside 台灣社 and 台灣北社, held a press conference urging the government to build a 「李登輝總統圖書館」, citing it as Lee Teng-hui’s post-presidency wish — an instance of the group active in Taiwan-side civic advocacy (reported by 中央社 via TJJ) (TJJ report); same HOLD applies on chapter attribution for the Taiwan-side context.

  • Disambiguation from corpus grep: 「台灣之友」 labels in US congressional records (e.g. Congressman McCaul, per an Austin FAPA memoir — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys355|Our Journeys #355]]), 日本台灣之友會, 英國工黨台灣之友會, 信賴台灣之友會, and 台灣之友基金會 (Friends of Taiwan Foundation, organizer of the 2025-08 「台灣好滋味」 Chicago carnival) are separate bodies, not this organization — not absorbed.

  • 2010 — The LA group was active as a cultural presenter: Friends of Taiwan in LA presented the Bird & Water Dance Ensemble (event record, era 2010), alongside its advocacy work.

  • 2014-10-02 — The group hosted a press conference for a lecture by political commentator 祈夫潤 (reported by 台灣公義網), an early instance of 台灣之友會 as a speaking-forum host alongside its advocacy work (TJJ 演講 tag listing).

  • 2025-02-14 — 台灣之友會 held 「金蛇喜迎春－新春聯歡晚會」 at 大直典華飯店 (Taipei), attended by 蔡英文 (remarks urging support for President 賴清德), 林佳龍, 陳時中, 莊瑞雄 — the third dated instance of the annual Spring Festival banquet series (2021-02-20, 2022-03-13, 2025-02-14), confirming a recurring event rather than isolated engagements (TJJ report); same HOLD applies on chapter attribution for the Taiwan-side event.

  • 2022-03-13 — 台灣之友會’s 「感恩迎新春聯歡之夜」drew President 蔡英文 (with 沈榮津, 徐國勇, 鄭文燦); media figure 鄭弘儀 auctioned 蔡總統簽名的烏克蘭色口罩 for NT$52萬 donated to Ukraine, attendees chanting 「支持烏克蘭、台灣加油」(TJJ report). Shows the organization active in Taiwan itself in 2022; the Taiwan-side event is not documented as run by the LA chapter — HOLD: chapter attribution unclear.

  • 2022-07-04 — The 「台灣好滋味」 (Taste of Taiwan) carnival was held for the first time in downtown Chicago — Pioneer Court in front of the Apple flagship store, timed with the US Independence Day holiday — drawing over 2,000 attendees to Taiwan food, FASCA 電音三太子, lion dance, 布袋戲 and music; the corpus Subjects link for this record points to this page (TJJ, 2022-07-04). HOLD: the article text names the organizer as 台灣之友基金會 (Friends of Taiwan Foundation), a separate body per the disambiguation note above — attribution here is via the corpus Subjects link, not the article body.

  • 2025-08-08 — The same 2022-07-04 report was re-archived (identical title and body, second Wayback snapshot), its Subjects link again pointing to this page (TJJ snapshot, 2025-08-08) — recorded as a second archival instance of the same record, not a distinct event.

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