Taiwan’s plan to take back mainland
Most people in China and Taiwan might think they know what happened after the long and bloody civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Communist Party ended in 1949.
But recently declassified government archives have revealed a previously unknown secretive plan by Taiwan’s late President Chiang Kai-shek to take back mainland China.
Chiang and his troops had fled to Taiwan after losing the war to the Communists but, despite great obstacles, he was obsessed with the idea of taking back the land he had lost.
According to these newly-revealed government documents, by the 1960s Chiang thought the time was right to launch a counter-attack, given the devastating famine Mao Zedong’s leadership had unleashed and the possibility China would soon have a nuclear weapon.
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