History downgrade misleads Taiwan students
The Chinese mainland strongly condemned on Wednesday Taiwan's downgrading of the nation's history in senior high school textbooks as evidence of separatist sentiment and moves toward "Taiwan independence" on the island.
"Such de-Sinicization in education will not only poison the young generation's minds on the island, but also further damage cross-Straits relations and intensify confrontation," Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Education authorities" on the island said on Monday that starting next year the history curriculum for senior high school students will be divided into three regions - Taiwan, East Asia and the world, instead of the three formerly used categories of Taiwan, China and the world.
