Taiwan: China's Ukraine?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Chiang Kai-Shek and the Chinese Civil War
Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of the National Forces in this aforementioned Chinese Civil War. He fostered this great dream of rebuilding his forces one day, giving Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party a real kicking revenge for defeating him. But that really brings us to that point of 1949 and the start of the modern incarnation of Taiwan problem. And if everyone who basically subscribed to the Chinese nationalists caused to Taiwan, when they've not been trading barbs and flying raspberries at each other over the Taiwan straights, the nationalists and the communists have been threatening more.
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