Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Wednesday that the Taiwan authorities led by Lai Ching-te brazenly used the false narrative of Japanese aggressors to whitewash Japan's aggression and colonial rule, which constitutes a grave affront to history and despicable betrayal to the nation.

Lai's remarks have once again laid bare his true agenda: selling Taiwan out to ingratiate with Japan, seeking "Taiwan independence" and making provocations, Lin said at a regular news briefing, adding that the Lai Ching-te authorities' attempt to reverse the process of China's reunification by distorting history, whitewashing colonial atrocities and peddling their "Taiwan independence" historical narrative will only lead to their own demise.

(File picture of the 101 skyscraper in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan. /VCG)