Beijing pledged to support pro-unification forces in Taiwan on Sunday as it mounted a concerted publicity campaign on Sunday to mark the 81st anniversary of the end of Japanese colonial rule over the island.
October 25 was formally established by Beijing last year as an official memorial date known as “Taiwan Restoration Day”.
Speaking at an event in Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province, on Sunday, Song Tao, the head of Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said the memorial day highlighted Beijing’s “firm confidence in defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
Song said the Chinese nation had an “indivisible cross-strait history” rooted in shared bloodlines.