[zook]

Are you really talking about Chiang? I know some people despise him, but without him it seems that Taiwan would have suffered under the PRC for many years.

[UncleDick]

I know some people despise him, but without him it seems that Taiwan would have suffered under the PRC for many years.

Instead, they got to suffer under the Chiang dictatorship and one-party rule of the Kuomintang. The Nationalist government was every bit as nasty as the Commies. They just didn't have as big a population to murder once they fled to Formosa.

The 20th century sucked for China no matter where you were.