FDR dropped the ball during WW2: He propped up the USSR which led to Stalin getting his friend Mao in power in China. We often don't think of the consequences of US involvement in WW2.
This is an amazing piece of history. I'm surprised how in depth of the thought and the desire to better understand the subject matter was demonstrated by the interviewer. There was hardly any traces of arrogance, presumptuousness and biase on display here, in stark contrast to today's mainstream media.
This video report didn't age well. Today China is the second largest economy of the world, from 700 million to 1,4 billion chinese people that are way better off on the mainland than in Taiwan.
It was actually a bit misleading if being used to understand today's Sino-Taiwan conflict as Taiwan has undergone a significant qualitative change after the democratization in the 90s. Most if not all Taiwanese citizens today will not fight for the legitimacy of being the real China( That is something that Chiang personally wanted to achieve, at the expense of Taiwanese people. Those with different thoughts risked their lives then, similar to the PRC today). The legacy of "claiming the whole Chinese territory under ROC sovereignty" and the official name, I.e., ROC, were never successfully abolished due to the high bar of the constitutional amendment and the implicit fear of being misinterpreted by China and the US as the provocation to the status quo.
Folks interested in China should read Bertrand Russell book on China published in 1920s. The Chinese parliament was disbanded to wage war against foreign invaders, and America, Britain sold out China to Japan after WW1 by rewarding qingtao (German colony in China) to japan, which Russell said was like Britain rewarding France with Kent for helping the allies in WW1. Japan colonised Taiwan in 1890s, colonised manchuria before WW2 (4 million deaths) and colonised almost half of China in WW2. And without Japanese colonisation for almost 5 decades, China would likely remain a democracy as CCP would never rise to power in the 1st place.
please!!! he is not from Taiwan, he was the president of the Republic of China, and he was the president of China during the second world war, his government retreated to Taiwan because of the civil war. I am really sick and tired of western ignorance about China or Taiwan.
51 years later, Chiang’s grandson – Chiang Wan-An is currently running the political campaign for being the mayor of Taipei city. The whole KMT still lives in the dream of Republic of China ( including mainland China area) , a regime that only lives in their memory.
Youngsters now in Taiwan find this very annoying. Our country name is so different from our national identity….
Taiwan in 1971 was a very nice place to live. Safer is standing at the Grand Hotel rear building. Taiwan has become unlivable these days. No good city planning, and a host of environmental issues, and a population density of 650 per square kilometer, much of it mountainous and good only for growing betel nut trees which cause soil erosion. Truly a horrid place, these days. Used to be Island Formosa. Now, Island Ugly.
I've had this name in my subconscious since when I small kid growing up in the 70's and 80's. Just like how it sounded…. Glad to have finally purged this out of my mind after seeing what that name's all about here in 2022.
50 years later there are some things that have changed a lot in Taiwan. Back then there were two Chinas: one communist and the other nationalist, but both ruled by dictators and both claiming to be the "real" China. Today, on the contrary, we don't see two Chinas: in reality it's China and Taiwan, two different countries in terms of political systems, civic values, and identity. Taiwan is a democratic country where the people elect their government and have all the freedoms we see in the West, things that the Chinese people can't even think of and certainly can't discuss in public.
I've lived in Taiwan for 10 years and I know for sure most Taiwanese don't see themselves as Chinese nationals, but as Taiwanese. As the Chiang Kai-shek generation and the next generation are mostly gone, there is now a local identity. Chiang's party, the KMT, has lost a lot of power in the last decades, although they kind of retain its links to China. Nowadays neither the Taiwanese government nor the people are thinking of "retaking" the mainland; now they are more concerned on defending the island from a Chinese invasion.
FDR dropped the ball during WW2: He propped up the USSR which led to Stalin getting his friend Mao in power in China. We often don't think of the consequences of US involvement in WW2.
這是什麼鬼啊
Here because of YouTube's algorithm. This is amazing!
This is an amazing piece of history. I'm surprised how in depth of the thought and the desire to better understand the subject matter was demonstrated by the interviewer. There was hardly any traces of arrogance, presumptuousness and biase on display here, in stark contrast to today's mainstream media.
This video report didn't age well. Today China is the second largest economy of the world, from 700 million to 1,4 billion chinese people that are way better off on the mainland than in Taiwan.
It was actually a bit misleading if being used to understand today's Sino-Taiwan conflict as Taiwan has undergone a significant qualitative change after the democratization in the 90s. Most if not all Taiwanese citizens today will not fight for the legitimacy of being the real China( That is something that Chiang personally wanted to achieve, at the expense of Taiwanese people. Those with different thoughts risked their lives then, similar to the PRC today). The legacy of "claiming the whole Chinese territory under ROC sovereignty" and the official name, I.e., ROC, were never successfully abolished due to the high bar of the constitutional amendment and the implicit fear of being misinterpreted by China and the US as the provocation to the status quo.
Folks interested in China should read Bertrand Russell book on China published in 1920s. The Chinese parliament was disbanded to wage war against foreign invaders, and America, Britain sold out China to Japan after WW1 by rewarding qingtao (German colony in China) to japan, which Russell said was like Britain rewarding France with Kent for helping the allies in WW1.
Japan colonised Taiwan in 1890s, colonised manchuria before WW2 (4 million deaths) and colonised almost half of China in WW2. And without Japanese colonisation for almost 5 decades, China would likely remain a democracy as CCP would never rise to power in the 1st place.
please!!! he is not from Taiwan, he was the president of the Republic of China, and he was the president of China during the second world war, his government retreated to Taiwan because of the civil war. I am really sick and tired of western ignorance about China or Taiwan.
Chiang Kai-Shek is GOD
敗軍之將何足言勇，失土之氶何來英明
OMG… this is like Time Machine!
51 years later, Chiang’s grandson – Chiang Wan-An is currently running the political campaign for being the mayor of Taipei city.
The whole KMT still lives in the dream of Republic of China ( including mainland China area) , a regime that only lives in their memory.
Youngsters now in Taiwan find this very annoying.
Our country name is so different from our national identity….
Hopefully xi get toppled and there in fighting in CCP and it f*** up on it own and Taiwan can move in to control china for good ….
👍👍👍
China under the CCP has clearly been far more of a military threat to Taiwan since the 1990's than it ever was in the 1950's to the 1980's.
Taiwan in 1971 was a very nice place to live. Safer is standing at the Grand Hotel rear building. Taiwan has become unlivable these days. No good city planning, and a host of environmental issues, and a population density of 650 per square kilometer, much of it mountainous and good only for growing betel nut trees which cause soil erosion. Truly a horrid place, these days. Used to be Island Formosa. Now, Island Ugly.
I've had this name in my subconscious since when I small kid growing up in the 70's and 80's. Just like how it sounded…. Glad to have finally purged this out of my mind after seeing what that name's all about here in 2022.
He is president of the republic of China
10:37 that man was pathetic
50 years later there are some things that have changed a lot in Taiwan. Back then there were two Chinas: one communist and the other nationalist, but both ruled by dictators and both claiming to be the "real" China. Today, on the contrary, we don't see two Chinas: in reality it's China and Taiwan, two different countries in terms of political systems, civic values, and identity. Taiwan is a democratic country where the people elect their government and have all the freedoms we see in the West, things that the Chinese people can't even think of and certainly can't discuss in public.
I've lived in Taiwan for 10 years and I know for sure most Taiwanese don't see themselves as Chinese nationals, but as Taiwanese. As the Chiang Kai-shek generation and the next generation are mostly gone, there is now a local identity. Chiang's party, the KMT, has lost a lot of power in the last decades, although they kind of retain its links to China. Nowadays neither the Taiwanese government nor the people are thinking of "retaking" the mainland; now they are more concerned on defending the island from a Chinese invasion.