The Mainland Affairs Council of the Republic of China stated that the Taiwan Affairs Office claimed today (10th) that the Chinese Communist Party is the “main pillar in the war of resistance,” claiming that “the various units of the Communist Army collectively annihilated more than 170,000 and 527,000 Japanese troops, totaling 697,000.” This statement completely goes against historical facts, once again highlighting its self-deception nature.
The Mainland Affairs Council of the Republic of China pointed out that in 1964, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare published statistics stating that the total number of Japanese troops who died in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Manchuria was approximately 502,400; General He Yingqin, who served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of China’s Army during the War of Resistance, also documented in his book “The Eight-Year War of Resistance” that around 480,000 Japanese troops died in China.
The Mainland Affairs Council emphasized that the numbers claimed by the Taiwan Affairs Office not only do not correspond to historical facts but also attribute all Japanese troops annihilated in China to the credit of the Communist Army, which is self-deception and an absurdity.
“To annihilate 697,000 Japanese troops, there must have been a series of large-scale battles.” The Mainland Affairs Council pointed out that the government of the Republic of China has clear records of 22 major battles, while the Chinese Communist Party has not been able to provide any details of which large-scale battles it has launched or participated in, or how many enemies they have defeated in each battle. The fabrication of the 697,000 figure is truly laughable.
The Mainland Affairs Council stressed that the war of resistance was led by the government of the Republic of China, and the Chinese Communist Party only took advantage to expand its own influence, “drifting without striking, resisting without fighting.” The false storytelling cannot cover up the historical truth of the Chinese Communist Party’s lack of contribution to the war of resistance.
At a symposium on the “Potential Operations and Influence of the CCP’s ‘September 3rd Parade'” hosted by the Chinese Asia-Pacific Elite Exchange Association, Deputy Minister Shen Youzhong of the Mainland Affairs Council stated that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and that the former Axis Powers have now become democratic countries, proving that only freedom and democracy can bring national development, and only by respecting human dignity can one gain respect. Authoritarianism and aggression only lead to slaughter, tragedy, and more inequality.
Shen Youzhong expressed that “the CCP’s various soft and hard pressures, military threats, and harassments in the gray areas against our country and neighboring countries have become a highly unstable risk for the international community.” The CCP’s military expansion under the banner of the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” represents the current new authoritarian threat to freedom and democracy, echoing the version of 80 years ago when fascist militarism launched external aggression under the guise of nationalism. Their current rhetoric on commemorating the “anti-fascist” movement is a major irony.
Shen Youzhong emphasized that by distorting historical facts, the CCP claims to have led the resistance against Japan, thereby organizing commemorative events such as “September 3rd Parade” and “Taiwan’s Liberation,” which lack legitimacy and legality in political, historical, and legal dimensions. “In history, we all know that the CCP made no contribution to the war of resistance, only used the war to aggrandize itself.”
Shen Youzhong stated that politically, the post-war international values are anti-aggression, the establishment of democracy, and human rights. The CCP’s current actions of standing with aggressors and undermining democracy and human rights are well known globally. Legally, the CCP deliberately promotes the “One China Principle” internationally, incorrectly linking it to UN Resolution 2758, and even putting forward the so-called legal fallacy of “state succession theory” in an attempt to achieve the effect of “international One China.”
Furthermore, Shen Youzhong emphasized that through the grand military parades and the incorrect narrative context, the CCP misleads the international community to accept its one-sided claim to Taiwan’s sovereignty, attempting to combine the political objectives of “promoting reunification, opposing intervention” under the “international One China” with the “anti-independence, promoting integration in the Taiwan Straits,” aiming to advance its subsequent political scheme of “forced unification” against Taiwan. Many democratic countries in the international community have expressed opposition, and the people of Taiwan will not agree.