About time...

Taiwan pledges to remove 760 statues of Chinese dictator Chiang Kai-shek | #Taiwan | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/23/taiwan-pledges-to-remove-760-statues-of-chinese-dictator-chiang-kai-shek

In move seen by the opposition as an attempt to de-sinocise Taiwan, the ruling party is pushing ahead with plans to rid the island of monuments to the dictator

Dear Guardian, you make it sound as if there's one party doing this and all other parties are against it. That is not the case. Against the removal are the KMT and a number (not even all) of their offshoots. Those people never considered themselves Taiwanese, always emphasized (even in third generation born in Taiwan) that they came from "other provinces". And yes, they worshipped the mass murderer - and still do.

This has long been overdue. Next move please: Rename all roads named after him. In every city, town etc there is a 中正路, usually one of the largest roads. To my knowledge, only Chiayi city has always been rebellious: While they have such a "road", it's actually more an alley and not a very long one at that. Sun Yat-sen got the honour of an important road, but not the dictator.

Moving on...