Taiwan leader ‘glorifying Japanese colonial rule’, Beijing says
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Backlash was prompted by a speech that said the early days of the KMT’s rule over island were ‘worse than the colonial regime’.

Beijing has accused Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te of “glorifying Japanese colonial rule” in a recent speech. The People’s Liberation Army also stepped up the number of sorties by aircraft around the island after Lai made the comments on Saturday at an event to mark the 30th anniversary of Taiwan’s first direct elections. Lai, from the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party, told the event that the early days of Kuomintang (KMT) rule over Taiwan under Chiang Kai-shek were…

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