Posted on Jul 13, 2018
Taiwan in Dead Center of China’s Greater Territorial Ambitions
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Can't we just get all the people out of there, innocents and all, and just bulldoze that whole place into the Pacific?
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Concur, et al. People need to do some research and understand what has gone on in history with China, particularly what happened during WWII. We were allies with China in WWII, but not the PRC (Communist Chinese) who took over China in the late 1940s.
In WWII, we were allies with Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, who fled to Taiwan (what China refers to as Formosa) an Island 110 miles from the coast of China. The Communists (led by Mao Zedong), who overtook China, and slaughtered the opposition- with some estimates 20-60 million Chinese were killed in various regions.
Up until the US formerly recognized China in 1972 by President Nixon, we had always maintained that the Chinese Nationalists (now on Taiwan) was the government in exile. The US attempted to aid Chiang Kai-shek and the armies of China against the Japanese, with varying success; then General Stillwell was dismissed from China in 1944 after a request from Chiang.
In WWII, we were allies with Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, who fled to Taiwan (what China refers to as Formosa) an Island 110 miles from the coast of China. The Communists (led by Mao Zedong), who overtook China, and slaughtered the opposition- with some estimates 20-60 million Chinese were killed in various regions.
Up until the US formerly recognized China in 1972 by President Nixon, we had always maintained that the Chinese Nationalists (now on Taiwan) was the government in exile. The US attempted to aid Chiang Kai-shek and the armies of China against the Japanese, with varying success; then General Stillwell was dismissed from China in 1944 after a request from Chiang.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
There was a really great line, that Gen. MacArthur ostensibly said, it was in the film on him with Gregory Peck, about Chiang-Kai Shek, given all of the negative stuff Ge. Stillwell said of him, incl. that "Peanut" remark, and his wife, who was from that really wealthy Soong family, I've got a book about that whole clan that the Generalissimo married into, that Lt. Gen. Chennault was most definitely completely at odds with (he obviously couldn't stand Stillwell, they loathed one another, I'd read)..."I know all about Chaing, if he had two horns and a tail, we should still use him, as long he's anti-Communist"...not backing Chiang to the max was just about one of, if not, THE, dumbest major foreign-policy errors ever made, in my view, at least to my way of thinking, honest....
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Capt Daniel Goodman
And in the film, also ostensibly from Gen. MacArthur, was the quip, "We can always reform him later"...I thought that one REALLY good, actually....
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Capt Daniel Goodman
No kidding...most definitely, I'd seen videos on the Taiwanese special ops on YouTube...they're REAL serious....
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