Yang Chih-yuan (politician)
Yang Chih-yuan (, also romanized as Yang Zhi-yuan or Yang Zhiyuan; born 21 January 1990), is a Taiwanese nationalist politician. He comes from a Waishengren family. He is one of the founders of the Taiwanese National Party. Biography Yang was born in Taichung. Yang registered an account on the website of the National Socialism Association in 2006, when he was in middle school. In 2008, Yang joined the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and took part in Wild Strawberries Movement. He quit the DPP in 2009. In 2014, Yang and his friend Wu Bai-wei formed the "Tridemist Youth League" (), during which he met and discussed cooperation with Chang An-lo, president of the Chinese Unification Promotion Party, which appeal to Chinese unification. This Youth League shares the same name with Kuomintang's historical youth wing (1938–1947). In 2020, a 25-year-old woman accused Yang of sexual harassment. On 3 August 2022, Yang was held in custody on suspicion of endangering national security by the National Security Agency of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. He was formally arrested on 24 April 2023. References Living people 1990 births Taiwanese expatriates in China Prisoners and detainees of the People's Republic of China Taiwan independence activists National Chung Hsing University alumni People from Taichung