Gerald Warner: Economic Collapse Could Be The Downfall Of China's Rulers -- A Commentary

From The Scotland:

WHEN the two envoys from mainland China, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, flew in to Taiwan last Tuesday their mission attracted greater interest than usual.
For these two diplomats are pandas, deployed to promote the continuing thaw in relations between Red China and Taiwan. This has been accelerated by the emerging capitalist identity of China and the conciliatory policies of the ruling Kuomintang Party

Historically, the Kuomintang was the nationalist party of Chiang Kai Shek, defeated in the civil war on the mainland in 1949, since when it has been confined to Taiwan, under American protection. For decades the Kuomintang was the mortal enemy of Communist China, confronting the Maoist empire across the Taiwan Straits. The heavily fortified Quemoy island contained a subterranean fortress city, complete with hospitals, designed to resist a Communist attack indefinitely.

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