Tsai Ing-wen's remark that cross - strait relations are like family has been criticized by the Taiwan Affairs Office for beautifying colonial rule.

Lai Qingde described the relationship between Taiwan and Japan as "like family," and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council refuted it.

Recently, when Lai Qingde attended the Ota Ichiro Memorial Meeting in Tainan, he said that the feelings between Taiwan and Japan were not only like friends, but like family.

In response, Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said at a press conference on the 14th that as we all know, during the half-century when Japan occupied Taiwan, its crimes are too numerous to be listed, bringing profound disasters to the people of Taiwan. Lai Qingde ignored historical facts, refused to mention the disasters suffered by the people of Taiwan, but instead vigorously promoted the so-called "Taiwan-Japan feelings," beautifying Japanese colonial rule, betraying the nation, which is despicable.

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