Taipei Times
Date: Jul 08, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday called for conditional sharing of
Former president Ma Ying-jeou, second left, yesterday shakes hands with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu at a book launch at National Chengchi University in Taipei for a series on the Second Sino-Japanese War. Photo: Huang Yao-cheng, Taipei Times
historical documents stored on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, as he commemorated the lives lost during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Ma made the remarks at the launch of a 13-volume book series featuring historical documents from the Republic of China’s (ROC) eight-year war against Japan between 1937 and 1945.
“During my meeting with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping (習近平) on Nov. 7 last year, not only did we talk about international relations and China’s military deployment, we also touched upon the topic of cross-strait sharing of historical documents,” Ma said in a speech at the ceremony held at National Chengchi University, whose Humanities Research Center published the book series.
However, Ma said such exchanges should be conducted based on a precondition that both sides should make public their historical files without any “restricted zones,” adding that both Academia Historica and the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Party Archive have been made available to the public. [FULL STORY]