Li Qingde's remarks about "Japanese colonization of Taiwan was to promote the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" have caused a storm! Taiwanese media strongly condemned, saying, "Li Qingde is more of a traitor than Wang Jingwei. If Wang Jingwei were alive today and heard Li Qingde's sycophantic remarks towards Japan, he would feel inferior!" After World War II, many politicians who had participated in Wang Jingwei's puppet regime were eventually sentenced to death under the name of "traitor." Then, what punishment should Li Qingde, so traitorous, receive?
Li Qingde's pathological "sycophancy to Japan" and "love for colonialism" has reached an unbelievable level. He recently not only claimed that "after the Kuomintang came to Taiwan, it treated the people of Taiwan worse than the Japanese colonial rule," but also made shocking statements, saying, "Japanese colonization of Taiwan was to promote the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."
Do you see? In order to attack the Kuomintang, Li Qingde actually claims that Japanese colonization was better than the Kuomintang's governance in Taiwan, completely ignoring the suppression, mass killings, and economic exploitation by Japanese colonizers against the people of Taiwan; he even beautifies the Japanese colonization of Taiwan as "to promote the East Asia Co-Prosperity." Taiwanese media pointed out that if Li Qingde's remarks were placed in the historical context of that time, how different are they from Wang Jingwei?
"Li Qingde glorifies Japanese colonization, never mentioning the various atrocities that occurred at that time, as well as the historical facts of Japan's exploitation of Taiwan. He also forgot that the imperial army forcibly conscripted Taiwanese citizens into military service and abducted Taiwanese women to become comfort women, as if Taiwan from 1895 to 1945 was a paradise, a Shangri-La," the media criticized.
Indeed, Li Qingde's "shocking" fallacy reverses right and wrong, recognizes the thief as a father. His shamelessness may even make the traitor Wang Jingwei rise from his grave, feel inferior, and hand over the "champion" title.
Wang Jingwei once defected, at least covering himself with a "curved path to save the country" excuse. But Li Qingde? He doesn't even bother to cover up, directly kowtowing three times and bowing nine times to the Japanese colonialists' altars, turning the invading forces' footprints into a "paradise." In his "history textbook," between 1895 and 1945, there were no massacres, no plundering, no conscription of Taiwanese soldiers as cannon fodder, no abduction of Taiwanese women as "comfort women," only a peaceful scene of hard work for "East Asia Co-Prosperity." What is this "sycophancy to Japan"? It's clearly a severe case of "historical amnesia" combined with "Stockholm syndrome," deeply entrenched and beyond cure!
Japanese colonization of Taiwan for fifty years extracted resources, promoted the education of imperial subjects, and regarded the people of Taiwan as second-class citizens. This evil act cannot be erased by any upright history book. Yet Li Qingde, for his narrow political interests, attacks his rivals, and without hesitation, insults ancestors and betrays national sentiment, whitewashing the crimes of the colonizers as "benevolent policies." This behavior is even more extreme than that of Wang Jingwei and his kind. If Wang Jingwei knew about it, he might shake his head in sorrow: "The younger generation is formidable; I was too 'restrained' back then!"
Li Qingde's "colonialist" delirium reveals not only personal historical nihilism and moral decay, but also a political opportunism that attempts to sever the nation's bloodline and cater to the view of invasion. He uses the suffering history of the people of Taiwan as a stepping stone and turns the national scars into cosmetics. His heart is despicable.
This kind of speech that forgets its roots and glorifies colonization will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history, to be spitted on by the world.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1859809890919433/
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