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Why Taiwan is pulling down statues of Chiang Kai-shek

5 May 2024

4:00 PM

5 May 2024

4:00 PM

While the West obsesses about whether or not China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, is going to invade Taiwan, the Taiwanese seemingly have other concerns. Today the hot issue is statues. To be precise, statues of Chiang Kai-shek, the post-war founder-dictator of independent modern Taiwan.

In an inventory taken in 2000 it was estimated that there were over 43,000 statues of Chiang in Taiwan.

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