China Creates Holiday Marking Taiwan's Restoration | JQJO

China announced a new holiday, the Commemoration Day of Taiwan’s Restoration, to be observed on Oct. 25, marking the 1945 handover of Taiwan, then a Japanese colony, to an official of the then–Republic of China. The National People’s Congress Standing Committee said the observance supports China’s claims; Shen Chunyao told state broadcaster CCTV it highlights that Taiwan is an “inalienable part of China.” Taiwan already marks Oct. 25 as Retrocession Day. The Kuomintang, which fled to the island in 1949 after losing the civil war to the Communists, later ruled Taiwan and remains one of its two major parties.