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US prepares for long war with China that might hit its bases, homeland: Peter Apps
(www.reuters.com)
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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Doesn't have to be expressed via the KMT though. That was the party that ruled Taiwan as a military dictatorship for 25 years after all.
At the very least they should change the country's official name to something that isn't "The Republic Of China". Leaving that as the official name just feels like trolling.
I just don't think I'd fight for in a "We're the real China, no, We're the real China!" based war. If so many Taiwanese identify as Chinese it seems like something The West should stay out of. An extension of their civil war.
Like imagine if the Confederate States fled to Hawaii and claimed to be the real America... And the world took their side and swore to protect the "Confederate States of America" on Hawaii...
Shit wouldn't make sense. You'd be like "WTF world? What's up with that?"
More like the Union lost and fled to Hawaii. The ROC was the government prior to China's civil war.
Oh, did The Union come close to having a brutal military dictatorship after the civil war like Taiwan had? Why would you put The Union as being closer to Chiang Kai-Shek? Were they the more Capitalistic ones?
No, because the Union utterly demolished the Confederates.
We can only guess whether the union would have become and remained a military dictatorship for 25 years if they had lost and fled to Hawai. That's speculation.
After all, the ROC wasn't a military dictatorship prior to the civil war either.
I think they were... They did a bunch of massacres and political repression didn't they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_massacre
Wasn't that part of the betrayal that started China's civil war? Says there they killed hundreds of thousands of Communist supporters and unionists, turned women into prostitutes... And that KMT party members denounced Chiang Kai Shek (who became leader of the RoC dictatorship) to Sun-Yat Sen, the pro-democracy candidate.
Pretty sure the RoC factions of the KMT sucked pretty bad... Then later the communists sucked less than them.
The violent Chinese nationalists weren't the good guys. Western nations supported the subsequent military dictatorship in Taiwan because it was pro-Capitalist, anti-communist (and also anti-democracy).
It was only when Chiang Kai Shek died in the 1970s that the pro-democracy movement in Taiwan felt they could start properly without getting killed.