Focusing on this point, Lin notes that the signatory nation the Republic of China, which was founded in 1912, had engaged in eight years of bitter war with Japan, the other signatory. Therefore, when organizing the history of Taiwan, an historian should certainly not overlook the history of the ROC since its founding, Lin argues.
針對這一點，林滿紅表示，與日本有過 8 年慘烈戰爭並簽訂和約的，是 1912 年成立迄今的中華民國，因此在整理台灣的歷史時，絕對不能遺漏中華民國建國以來的歷史。