Chiang was every bit the thug that Mao was.
After this stuff, I started looking for diaries rather than official histories.
A young lady in Shanghai was a diarist and she noted that Chiang (it was from her diary that I learned in Chinese the surname is first) took the country’s gold supply in the Treasury with him when he fled to Formosa/Taiwan. A great deal of the poverty of China when Mao took over could be assigned to that theft rather than purely the distaste of communism.
But what did he do with the gold? He gave about half to his wife, who was raised in the US. She was Chinese, but her upbringing was in the US. So she came to America, bought elaborate mansions and then began to invest . . . in Congressional bribery.
THIS was why that little island retained a seat on the UN Security Council for 8 years after mainland China had set off its first nuke. 8 years! Because she bribed Washington.
Yeah, and we are supposed to defend them from invasion.