The CCP Didn’t Fight Imperial Japan; Taiwan Did

The CCP Didn’t Fight Imperial Japan; the KMT Did
While the KMT military defended China against Japan during WWII, the CCP built up strength for the civil war.

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By Zachary Keck
September 04, 2014

Reasonable observers might conclude that it is the height of hypocrisy for the CCP to wage a global PR war over Japan’s views of history on the one hand, while on the other hand criminalizing a correct view of its own history



The CCP has long claimed credit for having tirelessly defended China from the Imperial Japanese army. This couldn’t be further from the truth, however. As I have noted elsewhere, Japan’s invasion of China saved the CCP from Chiang Kai-shek and the KMT, and ultimately allowed Mao to defeat the KMT in the ensuing civil war.


It’s one thing to try to suppress all information exposing the Party’s failings, which killed millions of Chinese, while demanding Japan take a correct view of history (which Tokyo should do). It’s another thing altogether to falsely claim credit for one of the defining moments of your country’s modern history.

　至極当然の議論。

　日本の過去の罪も認めた上で、日本からもこうした議論をもっと出すべき。

　日本の一部ネトウヨ議員が過去の罪を認められないから、いつも防御にまわるのであって、例えば、歴史家の秦氏が認める程度の、歴史事実とその罪を認めれば、過去の悪行を認めていない、中国や、米国に、韓国について、攻勢にでることができるのに・・・残念なことだ、というより、国益を考えると、ネトウヨの罪は深い。