CSM analysis: ‘228 (er-er-ba) — 3 digits: Taiwan identity code’

"Almost 70 years ago, Taiwan suffered a national trauma. On February 28, 1947, protests broke out in Taipei, island residents attempted to negociate administrative reforms and a greater share of island rule. They were brutally pacified, and since 1949 Taiwan has been ruled by almost 40 years with a hard hand. This period of “white terror” of the Chinese right-wing remains an identity challenge for Taiwanese people to date. On the 1 hand, the then authorities fought the communist government of People's China in Beijing, on the another hand they were ruthless to their own citizens. present on 28 February in Taiwan is the Day of Memory and Peace." – Dr. Maciej Gaca, prof. of the UMC, associate of the Asian Observatory at the Center for global Relations, Sinologist, linguist, diplomat writes in CSM analysis. From 2015 to 2019 he was the CEO of the Polish Bureau in Taipei. Lecturer of the Institute of Culture Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

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