BEIJING (Kyodo) In a speech to 6,000 dignitaries last September marking the 60th anniversary of the war's end, Chinese President Hu Jintao recalled the anti-Japan alliance between the Chinese Communist Party and Nationalist Party (KMT) before it fled to Taiwan, saying he would not tolerate Taiwan's independence from China.
In October, Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, blamed Japanese rightwing forces for inciting current efforts to separate self-ruled, democratic Taiwan from China.
Jia claimed that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should "feel proud" of the "exalted victory" that secured Taiwan's liberation from Japanese colonial rule.