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On the Racial Origins of Taiwan People (II)

An Overview of U.S.-Taiwan Relations

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For decades in the context of the Cold War, the U.S. government had worked to make Taiwan a bastion of the "free world," although the world acquiesced and consented to the KMT regime's takeover of Taiwan. Early in 1854, Commodore Matthew C. Perry viewed Taiwan as suitable for developing an American base of operations for the Asia-Pacific region, and proposed the United States to annex Formosa. During World War II, Taiwan caught U.S. Army and Navy's attention as an important strategic point in the region. The Navy argued that Taiwan's rich human and natural resources had a lot to bear in the postwar reconstruction of Asia. When the KMT retreated to Taiwan after the war, the U.S. reopened a consulate in Taipei and continued to support the KMT regime, despite the corruption of the regime and the “228 Massacre.”  

An Overview of the Taiwan Independence Movement 

Refreshing the Memory of “1979 Formosa Incident”

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A Historical View of the Taiwan People (III)
  

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In the aftermath of the “228 Massacre,” the Chiang authority in Nanking promoted Chen Yi the Che-chiang Provincial Governor, while abolishing the Administrator General Office in Taiwan. And the "Taiwan Provincial Government" was established. In January 1947, the KMT government in China promulgated the "Constitution of the Republic of China," which had never had anything to do with Taiwan. By 1949, the situation of civil war inside China had become extremely precarious for the KMT side; and President Chiang Kai-shek was forced to step down in January 1949, while Vice President Li Tsung-jen took over the presidency. On August 5, 1949, the U.S. government published the “China White Paper,” pointing out KMT's corruption and incompetence. The U.S. considered the KMT as a regime “untrustworthy,” and was prepared to abandon it.

A Historical View of the Taiwan People (II)

A Historical View of the Taiwan People (Ia)

On the Racial Origins of Taiwan People (I)

Looking Forward to a Taiwanese State of Justice


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