But what if I told you that almost the exact same thing happened 400 years ago? Well it did. In 1661 Zheng Chenggong or “Koxinga” a loyalist to the Ming Dynasty and Arch Commander of the Ming Army, wanted to do whatever necessary to resist the Manchu invaders that would later establish the Qing Dynasty. Even after the Manchu took Beijing, the Ming Emperor retreated to Fuzhou. However, his army was unable to resist the Qing forces, he was captured and executed in 1646. The last member of the Ming Imperial family, Zhu Youlang had fled to the southwest. Koxinga and the remaining Ming troops were cornered in Fujian Province and unable to help Zhu. By 1661, the Ming Emperor sought asylum in Burma. At first the Burmese king gave him refuge, but after numerous threats from the Qing, he was rejected and eventually killed by Qing forces. Meanwhile, Kongxia, seeing defeat as inevitable, evacuated his forces and other Ming loyalists to Formosa (Taiwan). At the time, Taiwan was under control of the Dutch East India Company. Despite being in the face of westerners, Koxinga was quickly able to annex the island as it was nothing more than a trading post with few military personal. After booting the Dutch from the island, he established the Kingdom of Dongning with the goal of reorganizing his forces to eventually recapture the mainland.
Chiang Kai-shek Kongxia died in 1662 of malaria. His son Jing then took over as leader. Jing had attempted several times to launch an assault on Fujian but failed miserably. He entered a depression, indulging in liquor and women until his death. After his death, the generals debated his successor, but eventually Zheng Keshuang took the throne. After losing the island of Penghu to a Qing invasion, Keshuang surrendered Taiwan to Qing rule.
The similarities are startling aren’t they? Koxinga is revered as a hero in Mainland China because he ousted the Dutch “imperialists” and brought the island into Chinese rule. He is also regarded by the Kuomintang as a patriot who went to every last length to protect the Ming throne and repel the invading Qing. They also frequently compare him to Chiang Kai-shek. There is also a shrine dedicated to him in Tainan city.
If history does indeed repeat itself, it is only a matter of time before Taiwan is annexed by the PRC. However, Koxinga did not have the potential backing of a military power (The United States) to act as a significant deterrent. Then again, it is a rule of thumb in Chinese history that eventually a dynasty loses the Mandate of Heaven and comes to an end. And eventually, the Communist dynasty (or as I call it the ‘Mao’ Dynasty) will also come to an end like all those before it.
There are differences though Taiwan is a defacto nuclear power, much like Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy (list goes on and on)
ReplyDeleteIf north Korea where they are starving to death can make A bombs then you can bet that an industrialised power like Taiwan can make nuclear missiles.
Or they are like the UK/USA in the 1960s whereby the USA denied they had any nuclear bombs on British or German soil.... Instead the USA kept all of the parts to assemble 150 nuclear bombs instead. You can bet there are several hundred H bombs hidden away in one of the mountain complexes around Taipei.... the PRC knows this and the Taiwan government knows this.
You don't have much idea about what is involved in making nuclear weapons, have you?
ReplyDeleteI said before Taiwan does not need to build its own nuclear bombs. The USA probably has all of the parts to build a nuclear bomb. The USA did exactly this in the Cold war with Europe.
ReplyDeleteThe UK also did this with the Falklands, Operation Corporate officially was not armed with nuclear weapons. They got around this by bringing all of the parts needed to assemble a nuclear bomb.
It is like Japanese cars in Europe. Japanese cars come off the container ships with ONE screw missing, the workers in UK plants affix this screw and then label it made in the UK.
There is precedent for nuclear bombs stored in such a manner.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion that you haven't a clue about what is involved in making nuclear weapons, and an even more infantile conception of the use of same. You can go educate yourself on the subject of the RoC's nuclear weapons, I certainly shan't waste my time with somebody who has so much certainty with so little knowledge. Or, alternatively, keep on believing your little delusions if it makes you sleep better at night.
ReplyDeleteUm me thinks this is neither the time nor place to discuss this, shit I should have kept the not to be taken seriously thing on this blog
ReplyDeletePerhaps you would prefer this instead.
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