China unveils logo for WWII commemoration

[TaiShang]

China unveils logo for WWII commemoration
July 27, 2015

BEIJING, July 27 -- The government has made public a logo for commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World War II.

The logo highlights a striking, dominant red number "70" in the center. Above the "70" five doves fly over and behind it the Great Wall spreads in the shape of letter "V."

The "V" symbolizes victory and the unity of Chinese nation, according to the State Council Information Office. The five pigeons demonstrate the memory of history and the aspiration for peace, representing people from the five continents united and moving together towards a beautiful future after going through "bloods and fire."

The doves also symbolize the Chinese people are flying to a future of great rejuvenation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, according to the office.

The logo cannot be made into trade marks or used for any commercial purposes, and products featuring the logo are not allowed on the market, the office said.

 

[PLANZubr]

 

[WuMaoCleverbot]

Beijing distorting history on war: academics
By Bear Lee / CNA, with staff writer

Taiwan and China are staging a series of activities to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).

Since its establishment in 1949 after winning the Chinese Civil War, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has inflated the role of Communist forces in resisting Japanese aggression, while minimizing the role of the Republic of China Nationalist government forces.

It was not until 2005 that the PRC even acknowledged the role played by the Nationalists in the war, when then-Chinese president Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) said the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forces both contributed to victory over Japan by fighting the enemy on and behind the front lines respectively.

The PRC’s campaign to control the narrative of the war signals just another area in which Taiwan and China compete. After the KMT lost the Chinese Civil War, the Republic of China (ROC) was moved to Taiwan and remains Taiwan’s official name today.

In its activities commemorating the war of resistance against Japan, the KMT has emphasized the significant role played by government forces against the Japanese and in supporting Allied forces in World War II.

The PRC’s standard propaganda for both domestic and foreign consumption has been that the Communist forces were “the tower of strength” against Japan’s invasion.

Late National Taiwan University professor Lee Shou-kung said the reality was far different.

The CCP adopted a strategy of spending only 10 percent of its strength to fight the Japanese, 20 percent on its compromise with the Nationalists and most importantly, 70 percent expanding its reach, Lee said in the historian’s Chinese-language book A Contemporary History of China.

At the opening of two photo exhibits on the war in Taipei earlier this month, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) said it was undeniable that the ROC government and Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) led China to victory against Japan.

The CCP did join forces with the government, “but only to a very limited degree,” Ma said.

Nationalist forces successfully kept 800,000 Japanese soldiers occupied in battlefields across China, preventing Japan from throwing its forces into the Pacific and other areas, such as India and Australia.

Former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村), a four-star general, rejects Beijing’s claim that the CCP and KMT forces were both major resistors of Japan’s invasion, saying the comparison “is simply unfair.”

“There’s no doubt that the front line battles [fought by the Nationalist forces] were decisive, while battles behind enemy lines were supportive,” with the ratio contributed by the two to the war about 95 percent to 5 percent, said the 95-year-old Hau, who was a low-level officer in the Nationalist forces during the war.

He accused Beijing of intentionally “distorting or covering up the history of the war.”

The Hong Kong-based Chinese-language Yazhou Zhoukan said in the cover story of its latest issue that Beijing’s insistence that Communist forces played the major role and Nationalist forces a supplemental role in the war against Japan contradicted historical facts.

National Chengchi University history professor Liu Wei-kai (劉維開) said Beijing’s narrative of the war has not changed over the past 10 years, and that even Hu said Communist forces had turned the behind-the-lines battleground into a major field of combat.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/07/28/2003624075

 

[TaiShang]

Concert marking victory of Anti-Japanese War held in Sydney

An actor recites poems accompanied with violin during an evening concert to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the victory of World's Anti-Fascist War, in town hall of Sydney, Australia, July 26, 2015. (Xinhua/Jin Linpeng)

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
"Had China not been fighting, or had China been defeated, how many Japanese troops do you think would then be deployed to other regions to fight? They would have captured Australia, and India all at once."

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Beijing distorting history on war: academics
By Bear Lee / CNA, with staff writer

Taiwan and China are staging a series of activities to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).

Since its establishment in 1949 after winning the Chinese Civil War, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has inflated the role of Communist forces in resisting Japanese aggression, while minimizing the role of the Republic of China Nationalist government forces.

It was not until 2005 that the PRC even acknowledged the role played by the Nationalists in the war, when then-Chinese president Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) said the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forces both contributed to victory over Japan by fighting the enemy on and behind the front lines respectively.

The PRC’s campaign to control the narrative of the war signals just another area in which Taiwan and China compete. After the KMT lost the Chinese Civil War, the Republic of China (ROC) was moved to Taiwan and remains Taiwan’s official name today.

In its activities commemorating the war of resistance against Japan, the KMT has emphasized the significant role played by government forces against the Japanese and in supporting Allied forces in World War II.

The PRC’s standard propaganda for both domestic and foreign consumption has been that the Communist forces were “the tower of strength” against Japan’s invasion.

Late National Taiwan University professor Lee Shou-kung said the reality was far different.

The CCP adopted a strategy of spending only 10 percent of its strength to fight the Japanese, 20 percent on its compromise with the Nationalists and most importantly, 70 percent expanding its reach, Lee said in the historian’s Chinese-language book A Contemporary History of China.

At the opening of two photo exhibits on the war in Taipei earlier this month, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) said it was undeniable that the ROC government and Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) led China to victory against Japan.

The CCP did join forces with the government, “but only to a very limited degree,” Ma said.

Nationalist forces successfully kept 800,000 Japanese soldiers occupied in battlefields across China, preventing Japan from throwing its forces into the Pacific and other areas, such as India and Australia.

Former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村), a four-star general, rejects Beijing’s claim that the CCP and KMT forces were both major resistors of Japan’s invasion, saying the comparison “is simply unfair.”

“There’s no doubt that the front line battles [fought by the Nationalist forces] were decisive, while battles behind enemy lines were supportive,” with the ratio contributed by the two to the war about 95 percent to 5 percent, said the 95-year-old Hau, who was a low-level officer in the Nationalist forces during the war.

He accused Beijing of intentionally “distorting or covering up the history of the war.”

The Hong Kong-based Chinese-language Yazhou Zhoukan said in the cover story of its latest issue that Beijing’s insistence that Communist forces played the major role and Nationalist forces a supplemental role in the war against Japan contradicted historical facts.

National Chengchi University history professor Liu Wei-kai (劉維開) said Beijing’s narrative of the war has not changed over the past 10 years, and that even Hu said Communist forces had turned the behind-the-lines battleground into a major field of combat.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/07/28/2003624075

why is the totalitarian KMT government of the time with 99% of tax income and 90% of the population expected to contribute equally to the CPC?

 

[Aepsilons]

Nationalist forces successfully kept 800,000 Japanese soldiers occupied in battlefields across China, preventing Japan from throwing its forces into the Pacific and other areas, such as India and Australia.

Poignant, indeed. Salute to the KMT for being such worthy adversaries of the Japanese Empire.

 

[Place Of Space]

The Japanese still can't forge the so called Japanese Empire. lol. Obviously the japnese have not got enough punishment.
Start a 14 year war, killed 30 million people, damaged uncountable houses, facilities, don't need to apologize, don't need to pay a penny. I wonder how long the japanese can hide and be in large.

 

[Aepsilons]

Beijing distorting history on war: academics
By Bear Lee / CNA, with staff writer

Taiwan and China are staging a series of activities to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).

Since its establishment in 1949 after winning the Chinese Civil War, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has inflated the role of Communist forces in resisting Japanese aggression, while minimizing the role of the Republic of China Nationalist government forces.

It was not until 2005 that the PRC even acknowledged the role played by the Nationalists in the war, when then-Chinese president Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) said the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forces both contributed to victory over Japan by fighting the enemy on and behind the front lines respectively.

The PRC’s campaign to control the narrative of the war signals just another area in which Taiwan and China compete. After the KMT lost the Chinese Civil War, the Republic of China (ROC) was moved to Taiwan and remains Taiwan’s official name today.

In its activities commemorating the war of resistance against Japan, the KMT has emphasized the significant role played by government forces against the Japanese and in supporting Allied forces in World War II.

The PRC’s standard propaganda for both domestic and foreign consumption has been that the Communist forces were “the tower of strength” against Japan’s invasion.

Late National Taiwan University professor Lee Shou-kung said the reality was far different.

The CCP adopted a strategy of spending only 10 percent of its strength to fight the Japanese, 20 percent on its compromise with the Nationalists and most importantly, 70 percent expanding its reach, Lee said in the historian’s Chinese-language book A Contemporary History of China.

At the opening of two photo exhibits on the war in Taipei earlier this month, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) said it was undeniable that the ROC government and Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) led China to victory against Japan.

The CCP did join forces with the government, “but only to a very limited degree,” Ma said.

Nationalist forces successfully kept 800,000 Japanese soldiers occupied in battlefields across China, preventing Japan from throwing its forces into the Pacific and other areas, such as India and Australia.

Former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村), a four-star general, rejects Beijing’s claim that the CCP and KMT forces were both major resistors of Japan’s invasion, saying the comparison “is simply unfair.”

“There’s no doubt that the front line battles [fought by the Nationalist forces] were decisive, while battles behind enemy lines were supportive,” with the ratio contributed by the two to the war about 95 percent to 5 percent, said the 95-year-old Hau, who was a low-level officer in the Nationalist forces during the war.

He accused Beijing of intentionally “distorting or covering up the history of the war.”

The Hong Kong-based Chinese-language Yazhou Zhoukan said in the cover story of its latest issue that Beijing’s insistence that Communist forces played the major role and Nationalist forces a supplemental role in the war against Japan contradicted historical facts.

National Chengchi University history professor Liu Wei-kai (劉維開) said Beijing’s narrative of the war has not changed over the past 10 years, and that even Hu said Communist forces had turned the behind-the-lines battleground into a major field of combat.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/07/28/2003624075

I take my hat off in respect of the sacrifices of the KMT Forces. Some pictures of Taiwan's 70th Year Military Anniversary against the Japanese Empire,

Handsome display, Taiwanese Brothers!

配合抗戰70周年紀念，國防部安排戰力展示大閱兵，udntv邀請軍情與航空網路報導工作室主編施孝瑋，一同加入國防戰力展示特別報導。

 

[cnleio]

Imperial Japan surrender to U.S/S.U/China/France/Britain, 70th Victory of WWII

 

[StarCraft_ZT]

Screw you imperial Japanese.

 

[Keel]

Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1874) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Taiwanese movies against imperial japanese

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[j20blackdragon]

Here's my logo.

 

[TaiShang]

Here's my logo.
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Well, Japan might push China to resort to some drastic measures, just as they did with the US some 70 years back.

Hope it will never come to that point. if it happens, a considerable portion of people in Taiwan society won't feel too much remorse, if I know of the country I live.

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Potsdam Proclamation Vital to World Order, Peace: Scholars
2015-07-26

Marking the 70th anniversary of the Potsdam Proclamation, Chinese experts stressed the significance of the document and called for the whole world to safeguard the hard-earned justice and peace guaranteed by its terms.

On July 26, 1945, China, the United States and Britain issued the Potsdam Proclamation in the German city of Potsdam, demanding Japan's unconditional surrender to the Allies and accelerating the end of WWII.

The document constituted the cornerstone of the post-war international order and the world order today, said Zhao Jianwen, researcher with Institute of International Law under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

The Potsdam Proclamation laid a foundation for the UN Charter and "the principles and purposes of the charter are in accordance with the spirit of declaration's terms", Zhao said.

Over the past 70 years, the declaration has acted as an important international document in handling the issue of Japan's aggression and ensuring peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region.

"The Potsdam Proclamation terms stipulated how to deal with Japan after the war. And, more importantly, the document stipulated the elimination of militarism in Japan, stipulated Japan's territory and confirmed that the terms of the 1943 Cairo Declaration shall be carried out." said Jin Yilin, deputy director of the Institute of Modern History under CASS.

The Cairo Declaration established that the war waged by Japan was one of aggression and demanded Japan to return all territories it illegally invaded.

The recent passage of the controversial security bills forced by Japan's ruling coalition and Japan's so-called "nationalization" of the Diaoyu Islands years ago have "violated the Potsdam Proclamation and publicly defied the international documents", according to Lyu Yaodong, researcher with Institute of Japanese Studies under CASS.

Lyu also noted that moves made by Japan's right-wing forces have "trampled on the fruits achieved by the victory of world anti-fascist efforts" and called for the world's attention and denouncement of the nation's illegal doings.

"Each and every country and person that had suffered from the war and peace lovers should uphold human justice and safeguard the peace and security achieved by the Potsdam Proclamation and other documents." said Lyu.

 

[opruh]

Imperial Japan surrender to U.S/S.U/China/France/Britain, 70th Victory of WWII
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It's like a certificate given to the loser, in this case Japan.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
"Had China not been fighting, or had China been defeated, how many Japanese troops do you think would then be deployed to other regions to fight? They would have captured Australia, and India all at once."

Let's not post quotes without sources...(ie i'm not sure he ever said that)