[quote=ltsddd][quote=Coronita]That’s why so much ancient Chinese set and artifacts can still be found in Museums in UK.[/quote]

You should be grateful there are still “so much ancient Chinese set and artifacts can still be found in Museums”.

As bad and painful as it is to lose that much of a nation’s treasures to another country; in the case of China that might have been the best thing to happen to her.
Try to imagine them being smashed or melted down for scrap metal by the Red Guards during whatever the eff they claimed they were doing back in the 50s and 60s and 70s(?).[/quote]

It could be argued that China probably would not have fallen to the Communists had western nations not raided and weakened China’s empire during the Opium Wars. Also, let history show that Taiwan was actually on the side of Imperial Japan during WWII and to this day still maintains a slave/subservient image among old time Japanese, especially in the way that Japanese officials never acknowledge Taiwan, even during the Tsunami crisis where Taiwan donated a lot of relief money to Japan. Old school Japan only respect those that have put up a fight with them, and from that regards respect the mainland Communists much more so than the Islanders that simply let bent over without a fight.