Posted on 07/21/2023 9:13:47 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Missionary Antonius Hambroek was put to death on this date in 1661 as the warlord Koxinga wrested control of Formosa (Taiwan) from the Dutch.
In the 1620s, the running Dutch-Spanish war as projected into both countries’ colonial extrusions had resulted in the two dividing that South China island: the Dutch in the south, based at Fort Zeelandia, and Spain in the north. In 1641 the Dutch conquered Spanish Formosa to establish themselves as the apex predators on a rough and lawless island.
But that’s before they ran into Koxinga.
Simultaneous with the Dutch advance on Formosa, China’s Ming dynasty was in the process of collapsing. From the 1640s, civil wars between the advancing Manchus (eventually victorious as the incoming Qing dynasty) and the remnants of the Ming would tear at the mainland.
Koxinga was the last great Ming commander. He’d been born on a Nagasaki beach to a Japanese mother. His family ran a commercial concern stretching across the South China Sea as far as Vietnam and the Philippines; its dubious legality confers the romantic sobriquet “pirate” upon Koxinga but think corporate raider here. “Some people call him a pirate, but he was a businessman,” said present-day Taiwan historian Chu Cheng-yi....
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That's a distinction without a difference..............
Well, pirates are more honest. Just like prostitutes and politicians do the same thing, but prostitutes are up front about it.
The history of Taiwn is ethnically, politicAlly and in every other way much more complex and diverse than the CCP tells school children in Taiwan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Taiwan
I think you mean the KMT.
The CCP aren’t there yet.
Correction:
The history of Taiwn is ethnically, politicAlly and in every other way much more complex and diverse than the CCP tells school children in China.
ok that makes sense now.
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