LOL moment:
Anti-Japan propaganda campaign backfires
To coordinate its anti-Japan campaign, Beijing timed the July 7 anniversary with invitations to two prominent figures as part of a plan to create some degree of a united front against Japan. One was a senior Taiwanese ruling Kuomintang Party (KMT) military leader; the second was German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
But the plan backfired badly.
Gen. Hao Bocun, 95, a veteran of China’s fight against Japan in World War II and a former Taiwan defense minister, was supposed to echo Beijing’s anti-Japan rhetoric to show China-Taiwan unity.
Instead, the Taiwanese general excoriated China’s communist government — in front of Chinese officials in Beijing — for distorting wartime history by denying that KMT Nationalists’ Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek led the war efforts against Japan, not Mao Zedong’s Communist forces, as Chinese propaganda has maintained. He questioned why Chinese authorities hid the historical evidence, to which no answers were offered by stunned officials.
Read more at Washington Times
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