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Daniel Davis, 19FortyFive: Why Should American Soldiers Die for Taiwan?
Calls by U.S. leaders to extend security guarantees to Taiwan against an aggressive China are on the rise. American pundits have likewise been eager and disturbingly casual about offering up U.S. service members to go and die for Taipei. Before taking another step down this dangerous path, however, these leaders need to consider just how willing Taiwanese are to die for their own country.
Until we have more concrete evidence that the Taiwanese are doing all they can for their own defense, all talk of America risking war with China for their benefit needs to come to a halt. There is no justification for sending American men and women to die on the seas and in the air around Taiwan when the citizens of Taiwan are themselves cool to the idea of dying for their own country.
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WNU Editor: Here is the case on why the U.S. must be engaged with Taiwan .... Why Taiwan Matters to the United States (The Diplomat).
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During the Korean War, thousands of Chinese POWs shipped top islands off S. Korea coast as prison camps. It was not really reported in the press but many battles took place in those camps. POWs knew the war would soon cease and so those POWs split between those wanting to return to Communist China and those who wanted to go to Taiwan and avoid communism. That issue is now all these years later heating up on a much larger scale.
Still stuck on stupid
Korean War 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953.
"On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China with its capital at Beiping, which was returned to the former name Beijing. Chiang Kai-shek and approximately two million Nationalist soldiers retreated from mainland China to the island of Taiwan in December after the PLA advanced into the Sichuan province. Isolated Nationalist pockets of resistance remained in the area, but the majority of the resistance collapsed after the fall of Chengdu on 10 December 1949, with some resistance continuing in the far south" - wiki
When the Korean war ended the Communist China was only 4 years old. China now has had 72 years of propagandize.
72 > 4
How many Chinese soldiers in the early 1950s were drafted against their will (People who were caught up in the currents of war)? If a general surrendered his troops, the soldiers had no say in it. If their family was gone or lost and these troops were subsequently sent to Korea, sure they would want to defect.
Is that the case now.
Think man, think!
Have an original thought for once in your life.
When you can stop being so tiresome, you can read this guy. He details the situation that I had noted and so, dear heart, once again: you are full of shit
“A 1994 graduate of Boston University’s Creative Writing Program, Xuefei Jin (pen name Ha Jin) returned to the Department of English in 2002 as a full professor. Born in China, he was a teenager when China entered the Cultural Revolution and he became a member of the People’s Liberation Army at the age of 14, an experience he would later revisit in his written work. He was studying in the United States at the time of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and suppression and realized at that time that he would be unable to return to China. His work examines themes of exile, immigration, and the now ever-present global experience of movement among cultures; his course “The Writer as Exile” is a key element of the international focus of the University’s Creative Writing Program. His novel Waiting, based on his experiences in the Red Army, was awarded the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize (as was his novel War Trash in 2005).
Note: the Korean war did NOT end. There was and remains a cessation of fighting.
The communists were very busy trying to establish a communist nation even when they were under the thumb of Kai-Check. The Korean War, begun in 1950, was between the US and South Korea and North Korea. In Dec of 1950 some 300 thousand communist Chinese troops crossed the Yalu River to enter the fray.
--At the end of the Korean War, only one third of the approximately 21,000 Chinese prisoners of war were repatriated to Communist China; the remaining two thirds, or more than 14,300 prisoners, went to Nationalist Taiwan which represented a significant propaganda coup.
These Chinese POWs were a source of contention in the second half of the war. Utilizing previously untapped archival sources and oral history interviews in the U.S., Taiwan, and China, this study examines who these prisoners of war were, why and how they, individually and collectively, made divergent decisions in the contentious process of “voluntary repatriation.”
Now, bad little boy, what shit do you want to toss?
Poland today, the world tomorrow.
Still full of shit aren't you.
For the average American the Korean War ended 27 July 1953 just like the World War 1 ended on November 11th. For most Americans The Gulf War ended on 28 FEB 1991.
Most American do not make a distinction between the signing of a peace treat and the signing of an armistice. Many politicians and most media never try to disabuse them of this pernicious conflation.
"he was a teenager when China entered the Cultural Revolution "
There you go again. You know very little about the Cultural Revolution. But you
Prove my point if 72 > 4
You have read Xuefei Jin's book? Maybe. You cannot be considered literate. We already know you are innumerate. I think you see words more as emojis than concepts.
Fur sure you should have been born a valley girl.
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