That the Taiwanese volunteers who had fought for Sun Yat-sen ’ s revolution and resisted the Japanese to bring about retrocession suffered so much at the hands of the KMT was a source of bitter irony and pain. Their vicissitudes turned them against the KMT, which they came to regard as a foreign regime.
種種無奈轉折，讓這一段台籍志士前仆後繼襄贊國父革命建國、抗日復台的史實，成了極大的反諷與傷痛，也讓國民黨從台籍志士的「心之所向」，變成了所謂的「外來政權」。