China had been fighting the Japanese as far back as 1931 and throughout those decades of Japanese occupation, China suffered around 35 million deaths. It was a massive sacrifice, fighting to avoid more massacres, chemical warfare with even the USA on the side of the Japanese.
The Nationalist and Communists eventually joined hands to chase out the Japanese. Some are claiming it was Chiang Kai Shek signing the peace agreement after Japan's defeat that resulted, who should claim credit, and that the Communist has no right to claim Victory. Were the Japanese chased out of mainland China or Taiwan finally, which is the question. Taiwan is still ruled by Japanese or fake Japanese masquerading as Taiwanese.
Taiwan is a part of China, and driving the Japanese out of China is a victory for the Chinese, Nationalists or Communists are still Chinese, and the Chinese in mainland China have every right to celebrate that victory over Japan. Why are the allies celebrating the Normandy Landing as the pivotal defeat of Nazi Germany, when the actual credit should rightly accrue to the Soviet Union, suffering 26 million casualties to overwhelm Hitler? The Allies are not even part of the Soviet Union, while Taiwan is part of China.
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Not only is the Victory Day Parade to commemorate victory over the Japanese an important celebration for mainland China, Chinese elsewhere in South-East Asia have also suffered atrocities by the Japanese and are equally supportive of the commemoration by China. This is not just about the Chinese in Taiwan having that right.
Therefore, why is China's Victory Day Parade not a genuine right to show the patriotism of all Chinese anywhere in the world?
Dear Mr Redbean, this article is from a comment in your blog but this article's heading is written by you. Who is young Marshall Chang? There's no reference to this name in the article body.
Marshall Chang Hsueh-Liang was the warlord who kidnapped Chiang Kai Shek to persuade Chiang to form an alliance with the Communist to fight the Japanese aggression.
I look this up to learn a little more of history.
I was hoping that those who are unfamiliar with Chinese history should look up who is young Marshall Chang, not senior Marshall Chang, during the anti Japanese War, and the kidnapping episode. Just google.
I raised young Marshal Chang for this conversation because the KMT was trying to claim all credit in the anti Japanese war. Chiang was only interested in fighting the CCP, chasing them across China in the Long March. He was not too concern about the Japanese invasion, making many nationalists very angry, Chinese fighting Chinese, not fighting Japanese.
This was the reason why young Marshal kidnapped him and forced him to negotiate a ceasefire with Mao and joined forces to fight the Japanese.
Young Marshal's contribution in this part of China's history is about patriotism. Chiang and his KMT were not regarded kindly on this.
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