Tsai's subversive textbook revisions don't alter truth

Editor's note: Newly edited history textbooks for high school students in Taiwan has drawn protest from various social organizations on the island for its open distortion of history. People's Daily comments:

The new history textbooks that have been put into use this semester, which started last month, are nothing but products of the desire of the ruling secessionist Democratic Progressive Party to brainwash young people, in a bid to sever their cultural ties with the mainland.

In the textbooks, the ancestors of the people on the island are no longer from the mainland, which is to deny a biological and historical fact, but from the island itself; the legitimacy of the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation - two bedrock historical documents laying the foundation for the post-war international order, and enshrining Taiwan's status as part of China - are denied to sell the DPP's view that Taiwan's status is pending.