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Originally Posted by 5 south
I think it's more like if the south won the civil war and during their retreat to Puerto Rico, the union cleaned out fort Knox and took all the country's gold with them. But since no one likes those slave owning southerners, the world community gave the remnants of the union some protection.
yeah this one is a far better analogy
for some history fun facts, the nationalists literally took anything that wasn't bolted down with them - so much that when you visit any historic site or palace it's nothing but bare rooms
if you want to see the forbidden city then you need to go to Beijing, if you want to see everything that used to be inside it then you need to go to Taiwan where they built a replica forbidden city to house all that stuff
and because anyone with any wealth or education left and they dismantled and took with them their factories and workshops, the commies literally couldn't do anything because they didn't have the infrastructure to do it nor even anyone who knew how to do it - so they flooded the country with engineers and other experts from the soviet union - this is why nearly anything built in the 50s is soviet design style
and they were right to leave, the few that stayed behind endured so much terrible stuff - there's a great book that's been made into a fantastic film called balzac and the little chinese seamstress that details just how being the son of a dentist or playing a violin or reading a foreign novel made one a class enemy
taiwan also had it's own issues, it kept on a dictatorship and only recently embraced democracy - they also massacred a lot of the locals who didn't take to kindly to their strongarm policies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_incident where it's estimated they killed 18k-28k native taiwanese protesters
native taiwanese are more genetically linked to austronesians than chinese
but these people are now 2% of the population
while there'd been chinese living there for some time and there'd been a lot of interbreeding among the populations as well as all the korean fisherman, japanese pirates, and dutch traders who made the place their home as well - it's really telling that we totally ignore one group of mainland chinese pushing out and massacring the native population while condemning another for doing the same
of course the mainland perspective isn't that of international hypocrisy on this issue, they would agree with what the nationalists did and actually if you ever talk to deep nationalists they'll often go on about how the Taiwanese have been interbreeding for so long they are no longer even real Chinese anymore because so many of them are now mixed and few families in Taiwan can claim to be 100% han, which is a very big deal for a lot of mainlanders