Historical Note: Taiwan was formerly Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and military leader. He was the head of the Nationalist Kuomintang party, General of the National Revolutionary Army, known as Generalissimo, and the leader of the Republic of China in mainland China from 1928 until 1949.
Chiang Kai-shek owed his regime’s survival to the Korean civil war, which had erupted two days earlier.
Suddenly protected from complete defeat after his 1949 rout by Mao’s communist forces on the mainland, Chiang was handed a new start—along with a surge in American military and economic aid that gave Chiang, his military forces, his followers, and thousands of refugees from the mainland enough time to establish a new party and state that would radically change Taiwan and the Asian-Pacific region.
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The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army has begun joint military drills around Taiwan island. The spokesperson for the theater command says the army, navy, air force and rocket forces have been mobilized to hold the drills from Thursday to Friday. The spokesperson says the drills serve as a strong punishment for the separatist acts of "Taiwan independence" forces and a stern warning against external forces.
On cross-Strait ties, CGTN's Tian Wei talked to several experts from the Chinese mainland and the Taiwan region.
Military expert Zhang Junshe talked about the scale and intensity of the drills as well as the legal and historic issues surrounding it. Victor Gao Zhikai, chair professor at Soochow University, talked about the significance of this latest exercise. J oanna Lei, a former legislator in Taiwan's Kuomintang Party, talked about reactions on the island and more about Lai Ching-te's political stance.
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