Xi calls on Taiwan to unite for peace
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President Xi Jinping yesterday called on the people of China’s mainland and Taiwan to unite to safeguard peace, as he met with a Taiwanese political delegation to attend events for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Lien Chan, former chairman of Taiwan ruling party the Kuomintang, and other Taiwan officials are in Beijing for a military parade and other activities commemorating the WWII anniversary and victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Forces led by the Communist Party and the KMT fought together in the War of Resistance. However, in the following civil war, the KMT was defeated and fled to Taiwan.
Xi said during the meeting that victory in the counter-Japan war was “China’s first complete victory against foreign invasion in modern times” and that it was only possible through the efforts of the entire nation, including those of Taiwan.
When Japan invaded northeast China on September 18, 1931, and launched its full-scale invasion on July 7, 1937, “the unprecedented national calamity roused unprecedented national awareness. At the critical moment, the Chinese rose to fight bitterly with the Japanese militarist invaders,” Xi said.
The Communist Party of China and the KMT jointly established a counter-Japan united front to safeguard state sovereignty and national dignity, he said. “Both the front line and the battlefield behind enemy lines closely coordinated with each other and made important contributions to the victory.”
Xi said citizens in Taiwan share a common destiny with their motherland, and their struggle against Japanese invasion was “an important part of the entire Chinese struggle.” During Japan’s occupation of Taiwan, the islanders never stopped struggling, and hundreds of thousands of Taiwan people lost their lives, he said.
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