Oh wow, rare Taiwan W
Is it? Chiang Kai-shek cemented his place in Chinese history for fighting alongside Sun Yat-sen against the military junta instituted after the fall of Qing. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong then led China through the Japanese invasion.
His place in Chinese history is undoubtable. You shouldn’t need to be perfect to be remembered.
unlimited genocide on the memory of the white butcher of shanghai and taipei
Meanwhile Bandera statues ain’t going anywhere in Ukraine, nor in the US for that matter, nor in Canada: Canada Has a Nazi Monument Problem
One step closer to integration
Wouldn’t it be the opposite, as article mentions ( erase his legacy and the historical link with mainland China.)?
It’s complicated. Chiang Kai-shek was a historical adversary of the CPC and is viewed as a traitor and war criminal in the PRC. However, his nationalist party, the KMT, is alive and well in Taiwan. The CPC currently favors the KMT even though they were former adversaries because the KMT advocates for deepening economic ties to the PRC.
With this context I’m guessing the KMT’s primary opposition, the DPP, wants to highlight the KMT’s fascist legacy while also conflating the KMT’s and the CPC’s expression of Chinese nationalism. Making that false equivalency is easier because of the KMT’s interest in building stronger economic ties with the mainland.
Western media usually frames issues from the DPP’s perspective which would explain the commentary in the article.
About damn time