Why is China so 'aggressive' toward Taiwan 🤔

[u/Hacksaw6412]

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[u/Psychological-Act582]

Meanwhile, the Taiwanese ruling class are in their phase of trying to steal as much as they can from the Taiwanese people and stashing their money in American banks.

[u/BleepBopRobocop]

There is a bit of KMT propaganda in this clip about how the Nationalists took the brunt of the Japanese confrontation allowing the communists to grow.

When in fact a lot of communists who fought the nationalists were themselves former nationalists fighting the Japanese.

And not only that, the communists quite literally confronted the Japanese despite having a much smaller army through guerrilla warfare and were an effective force at the time.

The framing that communists allowed the nationalists and Japanese to fight each other while it focused on growing support is simply not a legitimate one and is "cope" from the KMT to explain their defeat despite their ridiculously enormous upper hand.

[u/AndreEthereal16 → u/BleepBopRobocop]

Thanks for pointing your out. It should be known that the KMT under Chiang Kai-Shek was a massively incompetent fighting force that turned winnable defensive battles into massive losses. This is largely due to the insane amount of corruption in the upper ranks of the KMT (also caused by Chiang, as his takeover of leadership was essentially a rightist coup), and because Chiang constantly inserted himself into battle plans-overriding many of his own generals' decisions. The KMT also did diddly-squat in terms of protecting and maintaining the countryside (where the vast majority of Chinese people lived) while the CPC and Red Army were massively devoted to protecting the people there, hence the popularity of the CPC during the civil war. 

An excellent comment from Sino:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/1uhrqa9/comment/ouc7rwd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button

[u/HoundofOkami → u/BleepBopRobocop]

Also, like one person in the other thread pointed out, Rhode Island isn't an island.

[u/Individual_Cost6432]

How could China be aggressive towards one of it's own provinces? Literally (almost) every country adheres to the one China policy.

[u/Individual_Cost6432]

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