27 May 2024

BACK TO THE FUTURE > One-China Principle: Why PLA military drills surround Taiwan island

  

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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