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| How did the Chinese People Wage Struggles Against the Aggression of Taiwan by Foreign Countries? |
| 日期:2001-04-17 15:45 编辑: system 来源： |
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In history the Chinese people waged epic struggles against the aggression of Taiwan by foreign countries.
As early as in the early 17th century, the Chinese people began their struggles against foreign aggression of Taiwan. The Chinese people fought against the invasion of Penghu Islands by Japanese marauders in 1602, expelled Dutch colonialists from Penghu in 1604 and 1622, and defeated Japanese troops sent to Taiwan by the government of Shogunate in 1609. In 1624 Dutch colonialists occupied Taiwan. In 1662 Zheng Chenggong, a national hero, led local people and army in defeating the aggressors and recovering Taiwan. After the mid- 19th century, struggles against foreign aggression of Taiwan continued: in the Opium War of 1840, during Japanese invasion of Taiwan from April through October in 1874, and in the SinoFrench War of 1884. Chinese on both the mainland and Taiwan fought against foreign aggression of Taiwan with one heart and one mind.
In 1895, as a result of Chinese defeat in the SinoJapanese War of 1894-95, the Qing government of China was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, ceding Taiwan and Penghu to Japan. Taiwan compatriots never ceased their struggle throughout the period of Japanese occupation, nor did people on the mainland ever stop their support for their compatriots in Taiwan in their struggle. In 1911 the United League of China (1905-12, the predecessor of the Kuomintang) led by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen started a revolution and overthrew the Qing monarchy. In 1913 Lu Fuxing organized and led an uprising of ethnic Miaos in Taiwan, and Lu was sent there by the League. In early 1920, inspired by the May-Fourth Movement on the mainland, Taiwan compatriots started a mammoth cultural enlightenment and national liberation movement. Among their slogans were "Down with Japanese Imperialism" and "Support Chinese Workers' and Farmers' Revolution." In 1937 Japanese imperialists launched an all-out war of aggression against China. A great number of Taiwan compatriots went to the mainland from the island and abroad to fight for national liberation and the recovery of Taiwan together with their brothers and sisters. Jointly, Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, who are of one flesh and blood, developed and administered Taiwan; jointly, they fought against foreign aggressors.
On August 15,1945 Japan declared unconditional surrender. Taiwan came back under the jurisdiction of the motherland. The entire Chinese people shared the victory of War of Resistance against Japan. The victory is an embodiment of the blood and tears shed by the Chinese people including Taiwan compatriots in half a century of struggles against Japanese imperialism and colonialism. No force in the world can divide the people on both sides of the Straits in whose veins flows the same blood.
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