I like your speculation. I also considered that perhaps all Presidents of China (be it the ROC or PROC) must be called 総統 but that can’t be true. In the case of Xi Jinping, one of his titles is President of the PROC, but his title is 主席 in Japanese.
Perhaps because that title in the ROC was originally called 総統, they continue to call it that, and it is a hilarious coincidence that it also matched the other connotations that developed during the 30s after the government fled to Taiwan.
I also wonder if keeping 総統 in Japanese is a nod and a wink to the Japanese right wing?
I like your speculation. I also considered that perhaps all Presidents of China (be it the ROC or PROC) must be called 総統 but that can’t be true. In the case of Xi Jinping, one of his titles is President of the PROC, but his title is 主席 in Japanese.
Perhaps because that title in the ROC was originally called 総統, they continue to call it that, and it is a hilarious coincidence that it also matched the other connotations that developed during the 30s after the government fled to Taiwan.
I also wonder if keeping 総統 in Japanese is a nod and a wink to the Japanese right wing?