Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council is setting the record straight regarding
the name of the holiday that was celebrated yesterday.

This came after Xinhua News Agency reported that Chinese legislators had
adopted a resolution to designate Oct. 25 as "Commemoration Day of Taiwan's
Restoration."

The MAC said Beijing is trying to amplify a false historical narrative and
one-sided political framework that Taiwanese people will never accept.

The Taiwan holiday is called "Taiwan Retrocession Day" in English or Taiwan
Guangfu Jie in Chinese. It commemorates the day in 1945 when representatives
of the Republic of China accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in Taiwan.

The MAC noted that the Chinese Communist Party hadn't yet established the
People's Republic of China in 1945.

In a statement, the council said, "Taiwan Retrocession Day has nothing to do
with the PRC, nor with the CCP, which made no positive contribution to the
war against Japan."

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