Kenneth Choy's letter (Letters, March 23, page 8) has no merit.
It seems that the Chinese government as well as those in Hong Kong have a fantasy of rewriting history as it pleases them. His response to Roger Lin's letter (Letters, March 21, page 8) is another example of the People's Republic of China trying to change what is real and what is fantasy.
Lin was correct [that Taiwan's "territorial sovereignty is held by the US military government"] according to US history archives. As a note of interest, the US never changes its history books, whether good or bad.
May I remind Choy to read the Rules of War, The Annex to the Hague Convention, No. IV (1907), Article 42. This can be found at www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/hague/hague5.html.
By the way, the Hague Convention of 1907 has never changed its history either.
May I also remind Choy to read the San Francisco Peace Treaty, which confirms the US as the principal occupying power in Article 23. Since this peace treaty was signed, the history books on this have not been changed either.
Marvin Bolton
Hawthorne, California
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