The Tragic Murder of John Birch, Pt 3
Taiwan and China still at Civil War eighty years after the war began.
When Imperial Japan's Emperor Hirohito went on national radio in Japan at noon on August 15, 1945, and unconditionally surrendered his country to the Allies, World War II fighting ended immediately.
The race for who controlled China then began.
Japan invaded Manchuria, a province of China, in 1931. The Japanese military desired North China's oil and natural resources for the ever-expanding Japanese empire. During World War II, China sided with the Allies in their battle against Japan, Germany, and other Axis Powers.
When Japan surrendered, the communist-led Soviet Union raced into northern China to gain control of China. Communists had overthrown the Russian Republic during the 1917 Russian Revolution, and Joseph Stalin and his USSR communist-led government desired to make China a communist nation.
On August 15, 1945, a four-year Chinese civil war broke out between the Republic of China's national forces, led by General Chiang Kai-Shek, and the Chinese communists, led by Mao Zedong.
The United States publicly backed the Republic of China and Chiang Kai-Shek, while the Soviet Union supported the Communist Party and Mao Zedong.
The four-year civil war in China lasted from August 15, 1945, to October 1, 1949, when Mao Zedong's forces defeated General Kai-shek's forces. Mao Zedong officially proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square. Chiang Kai-shek, 600,000 Nationalist troops, and about two million Nationalist-sympathizer refugees retreated to the island of Taiwan.
The island of Taiwan became the Republic of China.
Mainland China became the People's Republic of China.
One little word, PEOPLE, separated the titles of these two nations.
The People of Communist China Have Suffered
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of China, which leads the People's Republic of China, put to death between 3,000,000 to 8,000,000 Chinese people during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution.
More unknown millions of Chinese people have died violent deaths at the hands of communist leaders before and after the Cultural Revolution.
The number of those murdered is a state secret.
The violence in communist China hasn’t stopped. There are no more Christian missionaries in China. All have been expelled.
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