Early on there were primarily two movements outside Taiwan that commemorated the 228 Incident. One was the Taiwanese independence movement, which called on people to "oppose KMT colonialist rule," while the other was the unification movement supported by Beijing, calling on people to "oppose KMT despotism."
早年海外的 228 紀念活動主要分為兩支：一是以「反抗國民黨殖民統治」為訴求的獨派運動；二是中共支持的「反抗國民黨暴政」的統派運動；一獨一統，涇渭分明。