Hsu Kuo-yong, the List of Secretaries-General of the Democratic Progressive Party, was lambasted on the island for declaring that “There is no such thing as the Easter holiday”, just as the US was trumpeting the “Undecided status of Taiwan” at the Taiwan Association.
According to Taiwan’s China Times on the 17th, Xu Guoyong claimed on the 16th that when Japan surrendered in 1945, Taiwan was received by“Allies, not China”, “So there is no Taiwan’s Easter”. Wu Zheng, a spokesman for the DPP, added that Xu’s remarks represented the DPP’s position.
Eric Chu, chairman of the Kuomintang, on the 17th directly criticized the above remarks as absurd. According to their thinking, could it be that the island is still a colony? Zhao Shaokang, the former chairman of China Canton, said Xu’s interpretation of Taiwan’s history was a complete distortion of history and a disgrace to his ancestors. “How can you be a slave to the country and still be complacent? It’s unbelievable.”.
Both the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Declaration and the Japanese surrender made it clear that Japan must return Taiwan and the Pescadores to China, MA ying-jeou Foundation chief executive Xiao Xusen said on the 17th, taiwan’s recovery is an iron historical fact. Xiao Xucen said that from the US association in Taiwan manipulating the“Undetermined status of Taiwan” to Xu Guoyong’s denial of Taiwan’s recovery, there has been no wave of support in Taiwan, “On behalf of the people of Taiwan, they no longer want to be kidnapped by the ideology of Taiwan independence.”.
The Taiwanese media recalled that on October 25,1945, after the Japanese had signed the surrender on September 3,1945, a surrender ceremony was held in the Zhongshan Hall. From 1946, October 25 was designated as“Taiwan’s Easter”, a holiday day. In December 2000, Chen Shui-bian amended the “Measures for the implementation of anniversaries and festivals”, cancelling holidays for seven days, including the Easter holiday, and in December 2016, the “Law of the People’s Republic of China” was amended, from 2017, the seven-day holiday, such as Hanukkah, became a“Memorial holiday”. It wasn’t until May this year, when Taiwan’s“Legislative Yuan” passed the Kuomintang’s“Still false to the people” bill, that the holiday was returned to a legal holiday and the Taiwan holiday was resumed.
Taiwan’s United News Network commented on the 17th that the DPP expanded the“Taiwan undecided” battlefield, in the“General recall” after the explosion of a new wave of political offensive and defense. The article said that while William Lai demanded an end to the vicious fighting, he allowed Xu Guoyong to manipulate history, tearing society apart regardless of right and wrong and laying the groundwork for the next political struggle.