TAIPEI — Taiwan pushed back Monday against what it called Beijing’s effort to rewrite World War Two history after Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump highlighted a wartime U.S.–China alliance at last week’s Washington summit, Reuters reported.
Taipei notes the Republic of China government—then based on the mainland and now in Taiwan—fought alongside the Allies, while the People’s Republic was founded only in 1949. A White House fact sheet said Trump and Xi recalled that the U.S. and China “were allies in World War Two and fought side by side.” Mainland Affairs Council deputy Shen Yu-chung said Xi is “continuously trying to guide” the narrative toward the PRC; Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu said China wants to “overwrite the true history.”
Neither the White House, State Department nor China’s Taiwan Affairs Office immediately commented. Last year the de facto U.S. embassy in Taipei said China was spreading “false” WWII narratives to pressure Taiwan. The island’s opposition Kuomintang said the government had the history right but accused President Lai Ching-te’s DPP of selective use of Republic of China memory for political ends.
Sources: Reuters
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