By Ben Blanchard

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Veteran Pan Cheng-fa says he clearly remembers fighting for China against the Japanese in World War Two, but gets agitated when asked about the role of communist forces who at the time were in an uneasy alliance with his republican government.

“We gave them weapons, equipment – we strengthened them,” Pan, 99, said at an event in Taiwan’s capital Taipei to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two.

As China gears up for a mass military parade in Beijing next month to mark the war’s end, both Taiwan – whose formal name remains Republic of China – and the People’s Republic of China are locked in an increasingly bitter war of words about historical narrative and who should really be claiming credit for the victory.

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