{"id":33894,"date":"2025-10-17T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/10\/17\/taiwan-bans-officials-attending-chinese-events-to-mark-islands-retrocession\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:52:00","slug":"taiwan-bans-officials-attending-chinese-events-to-mark-islands-retrocession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2025\/10\/17\/taiwan-bans-officials-attending-chinese-events-to-mark-islands-retrocession\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan bans officials attending Chinese events to mark island&#8217;s &#8216;retrocession&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese officials have been banned from attending events held by China next week to mark the 80th anniversary of the island&#8217;s &#8220;retrocession&#8221; to Chinese rule because Beijing is trying to distort history for its own aims, the government said on Friday.<br \/>Next Saturday marks the anniversary of Japan, which colonised Taiwan in 1895, handing the island to the Republic of China government in 1945. Both Taipei and Beijing refer to the handover as the &#8220;retrocession&#8221;.<br \/>China and democratically-governed Taiwan, which Beijing views as its own territory, have repeatedly clashed this year over their differing interpretations of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two.<br \/>Taiwan says it was the Republic of China that fought the war, not the People&#8217;s Republic of China, which was founded by Mao Zedong&#8217;s communists in 1949 after they won the civil war. The Republic of China government fled to Taipei and the Republic of China remains Taiwan&#8217;s formal name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese officials have been banned from attending events held by China next week to mark the 80th anniversary of the island&#8217;s &#8220;retrocession&#8221; to Chinese rule because Beijing is trying to distort history for its own aims, the government said on Friday.Next Saturday marks the anniversary of Japan, which colonised Taiwan in 1895, handing the island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taiwan bans officials attending Chinese events to mark island&#039;s &#039;retrocession&#039; - 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