Scholar: The history of China and the United States as allies in World War II framed "Taiwan independence"

China News Service, Suzhou, Jiangsu, October 25 (Reporter Zhang Yangbin) In an interview with China News Service on the 25th, mainland Taiwan-related scholars said that the historical connection between China and the United States as World War II allies will promote the two countries to jointly maintain the post-war international order. This history is like a "cage" that frames "Taiwan independence."

The 11th Nanjing University Academic Seminar on Cross-Strait Relations was held in Suzhou, Jiangsu from the 24th to 25th. The 25th is the anniversary of Taiwan’s liberation, and many scholars have expressed concern about the “Taiwan independence view of history” and “Japanese-favored view of history” becoming popular on the island.

Regarding the DPP leader Lai Qingde's statement in this year's so-called "Double Ten" speech that "the history of World War II will never be allowed to be distorted," Cheng Chaoyun, director of the Taiwan History Research Office of the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that when studying the history of World War II, the most basic position is anti-fascism and anti-Japanese militarism. This is the consensus established by the post-war international order.

"Deliberately downplaying the historical facts of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and Taiwan's recovery, concocting the so-called 'colonial modernization theory', and using the so-called 'anti-war' to obscure war responsibilities is a distortion of the history of World War II," Cheng Chaoyun said.

After the China-U.S. Presidential Meeting held on September 24 included the history of China-U.S. allies in World War II in the consensus list of outcomes, the DPP authorities claimed that they had "delivered a wrong historical narrative."

"Why are the DPP politicians 'jumping' on this?" Liu Xiangping, director of the Taiwan Institute at Nanjing University, said that the victory of World War II, including the liberation of Taiwan, established the current international order. The Cairo Declaration and Potsdam Proclamation clearly stipulated that Taiwan should be returned to China, and that China's recovery of Taiwan is reasonable and legal. In 1949, the government of the People's Republic of China became the only legal government representing the whole of China, and it rightly fully enjoyed and exercised China's sovereignty, including sovereignty over Taiwan.

Liu Xiangping believes that the DPP authorities have politicized historical issues in an attempt to use one-sided narratives to find basis for the claim of "Taiwan independence." The historical connection between China and the United States as World War II allies will promote the two countries to jointly maintain the post-war international order, which is detrimental to "Taiwan independence."

He said that this period of history has framed "Taiwan independence" like a "cage", making it difficult for its separatist claims to find legal space. Against this background, deliberately severing history and deepening cross-strait antagonism will expose Taiwan to greater security risks.