[quote=Coronita]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.[/quote]

China was already weak and had fallen behind most of Europe and Japan. The Chin themselves were foreigners. Guess which foreigners Dr. Sun worked so hard to drive out of China?

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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.
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Wait, wasn’t Taiwan a colony of Japan by then?

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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.[/quote]
Dude, they should respect Taiwan b/c the KMT were the ones that put up any fight at all against Japan’s invasion of China. The cunning red commies just hid out in caves in far flung areas to wait it out. You know like that saying “fisherman enjoys the fortune” strategy?