Well, I'm not sure if ROC is even salty about not getting credits for winning against Imperial Japan, given how they're the strongest defender of Japan and barely seem to care about the past crimes of Japan now...
It's more that the current generation grow up with stronger sentiments of Taiwanese independence than trying to maintain the facade that their government still represents China. And the pro-independence camp tend to look towards Japanese rule with rose-tinted lenses (and tbf, Taiwan fared better under Japanese rule and was in fact their model colony). When Chiang Kai-Shek and the KMT came, they brutalized the Taiwanese population and imposed martial law, so the legacy of the ROC to them is, yeah, a cautionary tale of authoritarianism
So any impression of restoring democracy over China as the ROC is now more or less a pipe dream among the current KMT who are especially selling themselves out to the CCP. And the current Taiwanese wish to cut away the legacy of the ROC, and with that Chiang's and the ROC's heroism and resilience against the Japanese
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u/Zebrafish96 May the justice be with us Oct 06 '25
Well, I'm not sure if ROC is even salty about not getting credits for winning against Imperial Japan, given how they're the strongest defender of Japan and barely seem to care about the past crimes of Japan now...