The Story of Taiwan

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

Trans parade in Taiwan

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taiwan trans parade 2024-05-14 https://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1790626172034072649

Taiwan's fake “President” Tsai Ing-wen invited this man to dance in front of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the modern Chinese revolution, is an insult to all Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. These DPP politicians are so disgusting.🤮

China 🇨🇳 vs Taiwan 🇹🇼 vs USA 🇺🇸

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usa 7th fleet taiwan. 2023-06-30 https://x.com/CarlZha/status/1673940442998796288
Taiwan Strait rYZD
Taiwan Strait
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John Bolton and Tsai Ing-wen 2023-07-01 754

here's a short account of modern taiwan history since ww2.

I was born in taiwan, 1968. Left in 1982 at age 14. (to escape mandatory military service) My parents are from china. Dad had a sister, 3 years old, died in shanghai during jp bombing.

China had civil war, between communist (CCP) and nationalists (Kuomintang aka KMT), before ww2. During ww2, jp invasion, they kinda agreed to work together fighting jp. After ww2 (1945), the civil war resumed, and is bloody as ever. In the end, communist party won, lead by mao. The nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek, escaped to taiwan in 1949, with his top generals and soldiers and family (1 to 2 million). (my dad's dad, is part of it)

Mao would have chased over and finished the job. Except, us has its 8th fleet at the taiwan strait. basically, usa supports the nationalists.

Chiang's taiwan, is basically authoritarian. any who disagree are jailed or killed. (big example, the historian Li Ao. went to jail for several years. no usa help. Died in 2018) (there were a few massacres) usa, supported it, in the name of “democracy”. (and usa soldiers, rape taiwan women, or enjoys a superior race status. My had told me stories i vaguely remember)

( “taiwaness” means quite a lot of things. 95% are han chinese. of which, the Hoklo, the Hakka, and waishengren (or “mainlanders”) it can mean those who are in taiwan before nationalist arrived. it's (which we call “taiwaness”.) taiwaness indigenous aboriginals. it can mean han chinese. (including, already in taiwan and chinese arrived with chiang from china) )

from 1990 to 2000, taiwan started to become more multi-party “democratic”.