You can tell a lot about a government by how it describes past events and by which political anniversaries it chooses to mark. On February 22, China announced it would commemorate the “228 incident” – the 1947 massacre in Taiwan of perceived anti-government protesters. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson An Fengshan praised the demonstrations as a “righteous act that…comrades took upon resisting authoritarian rule and fought for their basic rights. It was part of the people’s liberation.” But this is a twisted characterization of events that marks little other than Beijing’s narrative that Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic.
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Dispatches
China Again Whitewashes History
Beijing Twists the Anniversary of a Massacre to Back its Claim on Taiwan
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