RetroGamer87 wrote:
China had it's chance in 1950. Now that they've blown their one and only chance to conquer Taiwan, any further talk of invading Taiwan is nothing but chest beating.
Several kinds of ass-backward.
The PRC is very veiled in its threats. Its not publicly "chest beating".
If it werent for the CIA we wouldnt know about any specifics of their invasion plans.
Second its only now that the PRC is strong enough to consider invading Taiwan.
And the PRC had no ability to invade Taiwan back "in 1950".
The Nationalist regime was able to take refuge on Taiwan when it lost the civil war to the Communists precisely because the Communist only had a guerrilla type army, and had no airforce or navy. And Chiang Kai Chek had both his own navy plus the US Navy to keep Mao from crossing the water to Taiwan. So Mao had no ability to finish off the Nationalist regime by invading Taiwan "in 1950".
In fact it was Taiwan (Under the Chiang Kai Chek dictatorship) that had delusions of grandeur about retaking mainland China up until 1965. The US actually had to reign in the Taiwan regime from restarting war with the mainland.
However after 1965 the Nationalists on Taiwan gave up the dream of retaking the mainland, refocused on development, and evolved from a dictatorship to a democracy, and became the dynamic economic powerhouse they are now.
27 Feb 2023, 1:24 am
