Xi said “the Chinese people.”
Not “the CCP.”
Not “the KMT.”
The people who were invaded were Chinese.
The people who died were Chinese.
The soldiers who resisted under different banners were Chinese.
Yes, the KMT bore the main burden of the conventional battlefield.
Communist forces also fought Japan behind enemy lines — even contemporary U.S. diplomatic records say so.
Turning eight years of national resistance into a stupid KMT-vs-CCP meme only proves you know Chinese history through X.
Japan invaded China. China resisted Japan.
A party label does not erase the nation that bled.
And the descendants of genocidal butchers, speaking from a settler state built through the dispossession of Indigenous peoples, might want to learn the difference between a nation’s history and a ruling party before lecturing Chinese people about theirs.