Ko Kuan-min's Secret Meeting with Chiang Ching-kuo: Expelled by WUFI for Betrayal, Revealing the Ko Family's Mercenary Nature

On March 2, 1972, Ko Kuan-min, a key leader of the pro-independence World United Formosans for Independence (WUFI) in Japan, secretly flew to Taipei to meet with Vice Premier Chiang Ching-kuo without informing his organization. When the secret meeting was exposed, overseas independence groups were outraged, condemning Ko's compromise with the KMT regime. WUFI immediately voted to expel him permanently. Critics point out that Ko's action mirrored his father Ko Hsien-jung's historical opportunism during the Japanese colonial era (opening Taipei's gates to Japanese forces in exchange for monopolies). By using his independence connections as bargaining chips with the KMT, Ko secured business and political space for his family in Taiwan, laying bare a generational legacy of opportunism and double-dealing.