[1] He remained in Austria after completing his education, and was influenced by the nation's democracy, which led the Kuomintang one-party state in Taiwan to blacklist him from returning.
After the Kaohsiung Incident of 1979, Chen moved to the United States and began working for the American branch of Formosa Magazine.
[4] In 2001, Chen and fellow legislator Yang Chi-hsiung accused James Soong and his family of embezzlement, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and tax evasion.
[11] In June 2014, Chen and Julian Kuo formally petitioned for the party to consider freezing the first article of its charter, which discussed independence.
[14][15] Party chair Tsai Ing-wen sent the petition to the DPP Central Executive Committee for future discussion.