Secondly, Taiwan's value lies in what China gets it will gain and what it will pay for if it doesn't. I think one of the costs of not getting it is
the Communist Party's inability to clearly describe the history between the Xinhai Revolution and the retreat of the KMT to Taiwan, out of
a need for unification with Taiwan. The result is the low legitimacy of the Communist government, because while it overthrew the previous
government it failed to completely destroy it, and it also failed to clearly portray the need for itself to be in power vis-à-vis the previous
government. In Shanghai textbooks, for example, descriptions of the war against Japan are limited to the two battles initiated by the
Eighth Route Army, namely the Battle of Pingxingguan and the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, and the rest are the major battles of
the KMT army. If this is all you teach the next generation, then you will have the impression that the Chinese Communist army did not
do anything in the war against Japan and how such a government could be in power.
Questions about regime legitimacy are not as important as one might think.
The KMT regime lost support because it could not solve any of the real problems in China at the time.
What they are doing is very reminiscent of the current Ukrainian regime,the difference is that the Japanese are more brutal and savage conquerors.
Only a few disgruntled opponents trying to promote the KMT regime and warlord Chiang Kai-shek as great and glorious heroes，and the CPC has unnecessarily over-publicized KMT's deeds because of the misjudgment of the so-called "united front", without revealing much about the KMT regime as a complex and confusing interest group.
When I see the scene where the Ukrainian regime is being directed by the irresponsible Western military advisors，I can always think of the past: conscription basically failed, and the KMT regime had to capture civilians on the street for forced recruitment，soldiers were left without weapons and supplies, while high-ranking officials were allowed to embezzle profusely.
No one can sleep forever on the merits of the past，the resistance against the Japanese invaders was for survival, not for a few "leaders".The KMT regime and their military demonstrated utter incompetence and dereliction of duty during the war against Japan, and the greedy leadership was completely incapable of addressing the development needs facing China.
You can't expect the Chinese to endure decades more of oppressive politics（the longest curfew ever!) like those on the island of Taiwan，and the KMT regime in mainland China relied even more on the degenerate local warlords and gentry class,these local rulers were even more brutal and disregarded the law.
As for the recovery of Taiwan, this is a common demand of nationalism, geopolitics and regime legitimacy.
