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09:54, July 08, 2007 |
Former Kuomintang (KMT) party chairman Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday underlined the importance of anti-Japanese war for Taiwan, at a local gathering marking the 70th anniversary of the war's outbreak.
On July 7, 1937, the intruding Japanese forces assaulted Lugou Bridge and Chinese soldiers responded by gun fire. This has been known as the Lugou Bridge Incident, or "July 7 Incident", which marked the beginning of the War of Resistance against Japan in the whole country.
"There is no Taiwan if there is no 'July 7 anti-Japanese war'," Ma told the gathering attended by local veteran soldiers in the northern Taiwan city of Hsinchu.
Rural China defeated the industralized Japan and rejuvenated Taiwan, he said.
Ma noted the Chinese military forces fought the invading Japanese troops on their own for four years, before the Western countries joined the war following the Pearl Harbor incident.
History is a mirror that should be commemorated, he said.
Source: Xinhua
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