Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats
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| purpose = Liberalism
| headquarters = Taipei, Taiwan
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{{Liberalism sidebar |Organizations}}
The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) is a regional organization of liberal democratic political parties in Asia.
History and details
The council was created on 10 December 1993, in a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan.{{Cite web|url=http://cald.org/about/history/|title=History : CALD | Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats|website=cald.org}} There are nine member parties, an associate member, and one party with observer status. Currently, many democrats in Asia have a relationship with CALD. CALD has also opened its membership to like-minded individuals, and regularly engages with non-member political parties from Japan and South Korea with which it shares the same democratic values. The Democratic Party of Japan is one of the examples.
For the convenience of particular members, they also accept individual members, like the situation in Hong Kong. The Democratic Party of Hong Kong is represented in CALD by Martin Lee and Sin Chung Kai. The third individual member of the CALD was Indonesia's ex-President Abdurrahman Wahid (1940–2009). Aung San Suu Kyi and Corazon Aquino (1933–2009) are honorary members of CALD.
The CALD has been sanctioned by the People's Republic of China for allegedly promoting Taiwanese independence.{{Cite web|url=https://en.mofa.gov.tw/News_Content.aspx?n=1328&sms=273&s=100042|title=MOFA response to April 7 announcement by China's Taiwan Affairs Office to sanction Taiwan's Representative to the US Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan-based Prospect Foundation, and Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats|date=7 April 2023|website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan)}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/07/china-imposes-further-sanctions-on-taiwans-us-representative.html|title=China imposes further sanctions on Taiwan's U.S. representative|website=CNBC|date=6 April 2023}} The council has called the sanctions unfortunate and said they would not undermine the advocacy work it is engaged in.{{cite web |title=Statement of the CALD Chairperson on China's sanctions against CALD and its officials |url=https://cald.org/statement-of-the-cald-chairperson-on-chinas-sanctions-against-cald-and-its-officials}}
Full members
Observer parties
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| |{{Flag|Myanmar}} | National League for Democracy | {{no|under military junta}} | Centre{{cite book|editor=Derbyshire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyAGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 |title=Encyclopedia of World Political Systems |page=108 |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge | isbn=9781317471561}} |
| |{{Flag|Japan}} | Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan{{cite web |url=http://cald.org/members// |title=List of members |website= cald.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713020902/http://cald.org/members// |access-date=30 July 2020|archive-date=13 July 2020 }} | {{no2|in opposition}} | Centre to centre-left |
References
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External links
- [http://www.cald.org/ Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats] official site
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Category:International liberal organizations
Category:Political parties established in 1993