Chiang Kai-shek never said in his life that he was a Taiwanese, he was the president of the Republic of China, the president of China. He was not the president of Taiwan.
@@三囧-x7e Its an important difference. Chiang Kai-shek did not think that Taiwan's official name was the "Republic of China". He did not see Taiwan as a separate country but as merely a province in China and in his view the Republic of China was not just limited to Taiwan but it was all of China which included Taiwan.
I found this interview to be profound. The old 60 Minutes crew was far superior than their current peers. The questions and comments were thought provoking and meaningful. Wow!
I got to see Madame Chiang give an English speech in Taipei in 1987, and she was so well educated and erudite. She was 89 years old but spoke like a 70 year old, except with the most proper grammar and diction. Better than 99% of Americans.
This 1971 archive is a gem, it's surprisingly objective without bias and propaganda. Nowadays western 'main stream' media has lost the capability to produce such fact based reports.
I think he is one of China's greatest heroes, if deeply misunderstood and often criticized and attacked in the West. Yes, he killed lots of people to stop Communism, but he also saved an entire civilization from the Japanese.
He was rightfully criticized for a lot of mistakes and issues. As much as I wish he was a great leader, he was not. He was very very inept in later years and could not handle the communists attacks and handled Taiwan very badly
As an overseas Chinese diaspora, I must thank Mr. Chiang for staying true to his beliefs and doing what he believed was best for China. Chinese outside the mainland will always remember him. This is a remarkable journalistic masterpiece. Completely neutral and factual. Thought-provoking. Thank you, @60 Minutes. 中華民國萬歲！🇹🇼
Realistically, there are two China. China officially name is People's Republic of China. Taiwan officially name is Republic of China. Taiwan is a country like South Vietnam in the past. Or a country like South Korea now. i'm south korean. reunification of motherland!!!
I agree. If you listen to the commentary, it's so much better than the crap we hear now in the news. It's more in-depth than what we have now - at least in the U.S.
The media was afraid to call out Chiang Kai Shek as a fraud for fear of losing their job or be killed and it happened till this interview where Morley Safer said so called. Someone called him out and lost their teaching job. I guess with the interview the Maniac General couldn't touch Morley Safer in fear of all those companies combined with more revenue could pull out their investments.
@@katrinoy1 legally, Taiwan was never, is not and will never be a country. Those ones who say “realistically” Taiwan is a country are the ones who live in delusion. Have you read ROC’s constitution?
@@katrinoy1 I like Korea a lot, but I must say that the situation in Taiwan is very different from Vietnam and Korea. Our history is not like Vietnam and Korea, the North and South have developed together for a long time. Taiwan appeared on the world stage during the Dutch colonial period in 1624, along with the Spanish colonization of northern Taiwan. Next, in 1662, the Zheng Chenggong family, the son of pirates of the Ming Dynasty, ruled Taiwan. We were not included in the territory of the Qing Dynasty until 1683. After the Sino-Japanese War, we were colonized by Japan in 1895 until 1945. In the end, Taiwan was used as a base for returning to the mainland by the fugitive KMT regime that lost the civil war.
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What an amazing interview. This brings much more clarity to understand the current relationship between US-China-Taiwan than what today's mainstream media can provide.
My family fled from China due to the religious persecution of Christians under the CCP. Our family lost everything making it to America for the Freedom of Religion. But so many..... entire families were disappeared, just for believing in a higher power than Mao Zedong. Now the Uyghurs face the same thing under Xi Jinping.
SO much has happened since this interview that it loses relevancy by the day. Modern Taiwanese are not fond of Chiang Kai-Shek and what he did to the country.
This is an amazing piece of history. I'm surprised how in depth of the thought and the desire to better understand the subject matter was demonstrated by the interviewer. There was hardly any traces of arrogance, presumptuousness and biase on display here, in stark contrast to today's mainstream media.
This is true journalism, without taking sides, unlike today’s modern western media counterparts, despite their full access to information via the internet and social media. Today’s media must return to the good old journalistic practices of the old days.
1. Not really. This was 1971, when the UN officially switched it's official recognition of China to the mainland rather than to Taiwan. Nixon was also about to pivot to Mainland China in order to drive a wedge between it and the Soviet Union, and his team actually considered the reunification of the two Chinas under the communist leadership to be inevitable -- a matter of when, not if. (Chiang even considered a scheme where Taiwanese fighter jets would be painted to look like Mainland jets, and where they would shoot down Air Force One while it was en route to Peking.) America was just coming to terms with the reality that Mainland China was the China it had to deal with, so it's understandable why it became more willing to acknowledge that Taiwan was a dictatorship. Also, the report here is unequivocal that the Taiwanese economic model was superior. As for the cultural stuff the report discusses, that all comes from Orientalism. Both were just exotic to Americans. 2. Non-western media nowadays is _not_ biased?
As a person from mainland China, i was in tears watching this interview. Mr. Chiang is my president forever. He really loves China and its people. So sad he didn’t take back the mainland and we are still in the unfree China😢
Absolutely incredible interview and to hear Chiang Kai-shek. Far superior journalism than those of today and understand more the relationship between China CCP and Taiwan of today.
Full name is Taiwan ROC, in the past few years, ROC (republic of China) is being removed slowly and slowly from major media, to remove the historical connection with China. When entering Taiwan boarder, like airport, it still shows Taiwan ROC
What is CCP? there is no CCP in China. If you talk about the relationship to CPC, it should not be Taiwan, it should be KMT. Both CPC and KMT are parties. It is party to party relationship.
@@shawnhennity1769 that’s before 1949, back then it was one China governed by Democratic Party and capital was in Nanjing…. Anyway, the point is, Taiwan does not want any ‘C’ mentioned in any forms of country name anymore.
@@kristyy2488 Both in the history of the mainland and Taiwan, there has never been a "Democratic Party." Don't invent BS. Anyway, it is not up to Taiwan to want to or not want to mention China. Taiwan was a part of China, always is and will be. Period.
I started studying Chinese in 1972 because of the ping pong diplomacy, went to Taiwan in 1973 to become fluent, and lived there for 11 years and still visit every year. The reporter had just been to China during the Cultural Revolution when millions were killed. He was already mouthing the very pro-China line that continued until very recently, and it was started by these neophytes.
I have cousins on both sides. Taiwan is still today officially ROC. What do you mean pro China? I don't want my people to be another chess piece like Ukraine. We would like status quo please. It was your country who sold ROC for a dollar and recognised the CCP. The same now you are using Ukraine to destroy Russia.
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Chiang answer was profound... He hoped that America will see the long term challenge that communist China will pose but Americans were short sighted and more focused to destroy Soviets... America in 2022 made the same mistake.
I hope western people can watch this and actually understand the complexities of the PRC-ROC relationship. It’s never about China and Taiwan, but rather about Communist China and Nationalist China. The country is the same, the ideology and party is what differs. Both parties always emphasize on unity, but obviously according to their own rule and values. Which is why the calls for “Taiwan independence” is one of modern fabrications, and very likely driven by western powers, especially the US, to divide and conquer China, much like how their ancestors did their business when trying to colonize and subjugate non-White countries in the past.
Chiang learned from his mistakes of losing China, many changes transformd the island into a miracle place. Farmers produce the most amazing agricultural products. Scientists invent the most advanced technology in micro chips. People are friendly and helpful. The best place you can find good eats. They deserve to be treated with respects and protected for their own existence.
Realistically, there are two China. China officially name is People's Republic of China. Taiwan officially name is Republic of China. Taiwan is a country like South Vietnam in the past. Or a country like South Korea now. i'm south korean. reunification of motherland!!!
@@katrinoy1 There is two regimes with "China" on their name, but only the PRC is China, as it's in the territory of the historical China. Taiwan was not part of China in ancient times, it was just an overseas colony for the manchurians, that got filled up with Chinese "illegal" fugitives during XVII-XX centuries.
Yes, this is part of the reason why some of us in Taiwan are so frustrated lol. It literally started from my grandparents' generation to my generation and has still not come to an end.
This is literally propaganda what are you saying. Chiang made them come with pre answered questions. Chiang was just another warlord that lost thats about it.
A very precious piece that preserves CKS image and talk, even though the reporter was clearly taking side of the CCP in his seemingly unbiased comparison between Mao and CKS, and between communist China and Taiwan. As a Chinese born and raised in Taiwan, I appreciated what CKS has done to preserve Chinese culture and the dignity of humans.
@@tsengtanshuy628 As a kid growing up in the 50's, the Detroit Michigan school I attended ( run by the same educators as Madame Chiang"s) had us young students believing Chiang was a "savior".... it was not until I moved to Taichung 5 years ago that I learned the truth. corrupt, ruthless, beastly, - that is the real CKS. FYI in November 2022 The New Yorker published an outstanding article on the recent history of Taiwan -- Madison Bright -YOU need to check it out.
Chiang Kaishek was as much a ruthless dictator as Mao Zedong, or even worse. Even taiwanese don't like Chiang Kaishek, go figure. Chiang Kaishek was so ruthless that he was kicked out of the United Nations in 1972, and people prefer calling Mao Zedongs China as the one and only representation of China, because Mao was even more progressive than Chiang was
FDR dropped the ball during WW2: He propped up the USSR which led to Stalin getting his friend Mao in power in China. We often don't think of the consequences of US involvement in WW2.
Hitler invaded USSR in June 1941. We didn't enter until Dec 1941. Only because of Japan. Germany declared war on us three days later. Then we declared war. It wasn't really a choice.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 Do some more research. You are starting the story in the middle and what was taught in schools. FDR dragged the US into war against the interest of the country.
@@waverunner7063 He supported England with Lend-Lease Program but the U.S. was attacked by Japan and war on the U.S. was declared by Germany, not the other way around.
@@waverunner7063 Had Germany not invaded the Soviet Union, it may have remained neutral in the war still occupying Eastern Poland. F.D.R. took what came to him. Communist China was created in 1949, 4 years after Roosevelt's death. At the time of his death, Chiang was the ruler of China.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 Why did Japan attack? Why did Germany declare war? Don't start the story in the middle. FDR was a racist warmonger and communist sympathizer.
At the time of this interview, Taiwan was emerging as one of the Four Asia Dragons and steadily making progresses as a society while at the same time, mainland China was in the middle of its cultural revolutions and policy mistakes that killed tens of millions of its own people. Since then, 50 years later, Taiwan has became a full fledged democracy and adapted western values while mainland continues to hold on to its communism ideology and remains as an authoritarian state. The respectable journalists at 60 Minutes failed to see the differences between the two and often compared the two regimes without pointing out the crucial differences. While no one in 1971 can predict what is going to happen 50 years later but there is no excuse for ignoring what was happening then.
Taiwan may have been having economic success but at the time it was a totally repressive fascist regime. Democratic reforms didn't happen until the late 80's. At the time this was filmed Taiwan was a one party dictatorship and political dissidents were all jailed or shot. It is pretty easy to see why an outside observe would see more similarities than differences with it to Mao's China.
@@unknownsoldier9438 you apparently have no knowledge on the local politics of Taiwan under Chang Kai-shek. Local elections were held. In terms of fundamental social fabric and individual rights, Chang's Taiwan was completely different from communist China. Communist China has been fundamentally governed by collectivities. There is no individual right to speak of. Everything one has including his life belongs to the party-state. In Chang's Taiwan, individualism existed and individual rights existed.
There, this wise man had warned the US right then and there 50 years ago that despite their smiling campaign, the communists will not change. And it took the Americans 50 years to finally come to terms with this reality. The reporter was arrogant and highly biased in his interpretations of something he didn’t fully understand. The sheer murdering of hundreds of millions of Chinese by starvation and persecution in Mao’s regime alone would make equating the two Chinas under different leaderships simply because they still both pretty much look like Chinese laughable. As Chiang put it at the end, loyalty and faithfulness are the principles and trust for friendship, yet in history the US had unfathomably repeatedly betrayed and exploited Chiang’s China in favor of the communists whom the US itself had aimed to eliminate in its own county ?!
Agreed.How could US betrayed a honest ally that see them through WW2 so they could stall ample time to develope critical anecdotes to end the war?Just for the sake of counteract balancing Soviet Union,now they were ones regretting.养虎为患是老美的传统
Did y'all know the US had plans to assinated Chiang Kai Shek? They wanted to throw him out a plane and claim it was an accident. Look it up. But luckily for Chiang, that plan never went through.
At this interview, Chiang's age is two years more than Biden's current age. His early rise and success was built upon the funding from Comintern and the assistance of Red Army officers and commissars. He rebuilt KMT to a Leninist party with a party loyal army. His alliance with the US brought him a big win over Japan. But Mao with Stalin's support stole away the fruit of victory. He was a stubborn nationalist, his view influenced China then as it does now. My two cents.
Sorry, far from it. The whole shameful matter of Chiang Kai-shek is covered quite well in Barbara Tuchman's "Stilwell" and Henry Kissinger's "On China".
No matter why the International Olympic Committee called the delegation "Chinese Taipei". Very few Olympians come from ROC/TPE. SUMMER: First medalist from ROC/TPE: Yang Chuan-kwang (as Formosa/RCF) (Rome 1960, Athletics, Men's Decathlon, Silver); First female medalist, Chi Cheng (as TWN) (Mexico City 1968, Athletics, Women's 80-Meter Hurdles, Bronze); First Gold Medal: Chen Shih-hsin (Athens 2004, Taekwondo, Women's Flyweight) and Chu Mu-yen (Athens 2004, Taekwondo, Men's Flyweight). Of the 72 total athletes in the WINTER Olympic Games from ROC/TPE, none have earned a medal. They were first delegated at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Multiple Gold Medalist: Hsu Shu-ching (London 2012 and Rio 2016, both Women's 53 kg Weightlifting)
Chiang could have wiped out Mao and the CCP, but then WW2 started. The Nationalists were severely weakened by Japan and then were defeated by the CCP. China's sorrow is that they can never find good government.
wipe out？which Chinese history book are you reading. after the defeat of japanese Changkaishek still has an army way more powerful than ccp had. He has american artillery, weapon and tanks. His army outnumbered ccp. Why was he defeated. Have you thought of that from the Chinese perspective ？
Realistically, there are two China. China officially name is People's Republic of China. Taiwan officially name is Republic of China. Taiwan is a country like South Vietnam in the past. Or a country like South Korea now. i'm south korean. reunification of motherland~~!!
KMT under Chiang is nothing more than a corrupt oligarchy ruling China, that's why he defeated from public anger. Today's ROC has derailed what Sun Yat Sean pledged.
Taiwan never started as a democracy no matter what anyone says. Of course, things are different now but how different? We have "democracy' here too but you know.....
It's true changing a culture takes decades. The documentary is so true on living in China, but not too much on how people are different in their minds.
Interesting 60 Minutes as usual, the Chinese Leader revered by by all Chinese is Sun Yat Sun. But the post-Imperial collapse had so many war lords, as usual in Chinese history, to claim their portions. The Marxism promoted by Mao was opportunistic and timely for rural Chinese to civil war victory. Nonetheless, the common enemies were Japan and many colonising Westerners. As a overseas Chinese community in Singapore or Malaya then, our allegiance was through Sun struggle with Qin Imperial power and then Japan. The Mao era came as community divider and eventually more pro-Mao than against. Nonetheless, many overseas Chinese communities had to ally with their new home identity but pray for good outcome for Mao China and Chiang Taiwan. Naturally, most overseas Chinese prefer Taiwan to remain as status quo but part of mainland China. It's a tall dream as social and cultural evolution continue in its own paths. But war between Chinese is not an answer.
As an overseas Chinese, I also concur with your statement! All Chinese should all be proud of our rich history and culture and use it to bridge the difference between Taiwan and China. Ruthless and aggressively ambitious leaders from both sides are to be blamed.
@@dl4195 But do your people not support Chinese democracy? It does bother me how pro-Communist China they are nowadays, when lots of other Asian countries are increasingly scared of China's growing power and influence. :( 【USA🇺🇸 China🇹🇼 India🇮🇳】
Separatists: the advocacy or practice of separation of a certain group of people from a larger body based on ethnicity, religion, or gender. I think you don't understand the world 'separatist'😷
When he described China's foreign policy he described sovereignty! This is how a man who was funded by the US since 1920s is happy not to have a sovereign country but fully act as a puppet for the US regime. This is because he was never able to gain the support of the people and had to escape and was only assisted to escape by the US. He was a weak man leading a gangster regime totally supported by the US. In 1950 as war broke out in Korea the US put the 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Straits and his funding continued. China became the threat, US bases remained in Japan, South Korea lost its sovereignty and Vietnam was next to divide and conquer. The US regime has a lot of bad history to deal with, but soon there will be a reckoning of the scales.
The reality now is there are two separate governments given out their own passport. One democratic with rights to vote and one with one single party CCP. You pick which one you want to support. Democracy or communism.
@@maxime9420 Unfortunately, many Chinese could only write the simplified Chinese. They learned how to read the traditional Chinese from secretly reading the Kung Fu novels.
I was a Geography major, graduated 1994. Last class I took was a summer school class at UNC Chapel Hill Geography department. It was a high level Geography class about East Asia. The instructor was an old guy, nice guy he'd been to all the Asian countries to include North Korea, Vietnam and even Mongolia. He said the worst country he visited was North Korea...he said NK was stark, bleak, depressing and they were under surveillance from the time he got off the aircraft in North Korea until the time he left. Said thats just how it is there... Stalinist communist dictatorship. Another thing he talked about was Taiwan and he mentioned the Taiwanese frogmen. Notice at the end of this 60 Minutes documentary all the Taiwanese frogmen are wearing those tan UDT shorts Anerican SEAL TEAMs, UDT frogmen and reconnaissance Marines wear. The Taiwanese frogmen maintain a tight relationship with the American Naval Special Warfare community. The Geography instructor said in class that sometimes Taiwanese frogmen would sneak into mainland China (coastal) and have a beer or two at a bar. Said they spoke the same language. Then theyd slip back to Taiwan. Pretty dangerous but thise guys are seriously fit and well trained and well motivated.
As a Taiwanese, this is the first time seeing CKS in a interview, mind totally blown! 11:54 looks like he knows the dream would never be realised, but he doesn't want to die 😂
This is interesting. In 1971 Chiang Kai-shek and his government information chief (James Hui) were both confident that their government on the island Republic of China (Taiwan) would one day regain mainland China. It appears as though the reporter was somewhat prophetic when he asked Mr. Hui, "...isn't the dream of regaining the mainland really just a pipe dream...?" Mr. Hui responded with, "...it's no dream. It's very real...". Well, it's now January of 2023 and Taiwan has yet to regain mainland China. In fact, in the last couple of decades the story has been that mainland China will eventually retake Taiwan, which it has always considered to be a so-called runaway republic, by force if necessary. It will be just as interesting to see how this plays out in the next several years. Excellent work by the reporter.
@@sunnywintermorning1941- You're missing the point. Chiang Kai-shek, James Hui and the Nationalist Party fled to the island of Taiwan in 1949 and set up a government there. They also had this idea that they would one day return to the mainland and retake China. However, after all these years it has been China who has been threatening to retake Taiwan instead. We'll see what the future holds. NOTE: My personal take on this is that the Taiwanese people are free to determine their own fate.
@@barrybarry-bb28 I’m not sure my point was understood. But I can’t think of a better way to have put it. Perhaps by asking you: Do you really think there is a ‘Communist’ China now? Separately the persons you mentioned fled to a Chinese province. They never left China. That’s a really quite important distinction.
@@barrybarry-bb28 I responded to you quoting Mr Hui. We were discussing Mr Hui’s position. You appear to have forgotten that and forgotten what Mr Hui said. Mr. Hui, "...isn't the dream of regaining the mainland really just a pipe dream...?" Mr. Hui responded with, "...it's no dream. It's very real... the Chinese people on the Mainland, they don’t like the life they are leading now…under the … rule of the Communists.” You didn’t say anything about Communists; true. Mr Hui did. On a new topic; nomenclature: You - “Taiwan is, as I'm sure you are aware, referred to as the Republic of China.” Internationally that term is accepted almost nowhere. And not even the Taiwan authorities’ passport office describes the people there as “Taiwanese”. On what the question is: You - “However, the question is what do a majority of the Taiwanese people have to say about that?” That’s one question and an important one. But another even more important question is what do a majority of all China’s people have to say about that, not just China’s people in Taiwan but every other province too.
@@sunnywintermorning1941 - Here are the facts. NOTE: there is nothing listed herein that you can logically dispute. These are the facts. Do with them what you will: Fact One. Since 1949 Taiwan has it's own President, Vice President, Legislature, Constitution, Currency, Military and Flag. It is recognized by the Vatican as well as some twelve United Nations member states. I'll admit that's not an impressive number but at the end of the day it's what the Taiwanese people want for themselves. And it has never been more clear to the world what a majority of the Taiwanese people want for themselves. Fact Two. You mentioned that the "Taiwanese authorities' passport office" doesn't describe the people of Taiwan as Taiwanese. Well guess what!? The Taiwanese passport from 2000 to 2020 had both the names Republic of China and Taiwan on the front of it. However, since January of 2021 the new biometric passport has only the name Taiwan on it. The Taiwanese people have made it quite clear that they did not want to be confused with mainlanders. And in spite of the fact that most countries do not maintain official diplomatic relations with Taiwan, that Taiwanese passport is accepted around the world, including of course the smaller islands that are near to Taiwan itself, such as: Matsu, Kimen, and Penghu counties. The Taiwanese passport is not recognized by China of course. But so what! Ask the Taiwanese people if they care! Fact Three. Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists lost to Mao Tse-Tung and the Communists during the Chinese Civil War in the 1940's. They retreated to the island of Taiwan (formerly called Formosa) and set up their Kuomintang government there. They dreamed and fantasized of regaining control over the mainland but that dream never became a reality. They lost. Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist cronies lost to Mao and his Communist cronies just like Robert E. Lee and his Confederates lost to Ulysses S. Grant and his Union Army during the American Civil War in the 1860's. For years after the war, many of the stubborn members of the old Confederate establishment dreamed and fantasized about regaining political control over the South. The South shall rise again was their slogan. Their dreams died with them. Chiang Kai-shek, James Hui and the Nationalists' dream of regaining political control over mainland China died with them also.
Sigh, one of the greatest and most frequently misunderstood heroes of the past century, I know he made mistakes, lots of them, but given China's horrible situation, there could have been much worse leaders. Even the most anti-Chiang people would admit that he killed far fewer than Mao; even Western sources note that his killings of 20-30,000 Taiwanese civilians in his efforts to contain Communist espionage, is far less than Mao's 40-80 million deaths in mainland China during that same period. At least he helped America and the Allies win the Second World War against the Germans and Japanese, and at least he helped safeguard and modernize Taiwan, which allowed Chiang's son to transform it into the great democratic superpower that it is today. His legacy lives on in two highly successful states, one non-democratic and one democratic - both China and Taiwan - and that is what makes him one of the most unique and most controversial and complicated leaders in modern history. *I personally choose to believe he was a better person than most imagine. Rest in peace, Generalissimo Chiang, knowing that your noble sacrifices will be remembered.* :) 【 USA🇺🇸 India🇮🇳 Japan🇯🇵, South Korea 🇰🇷, Philippines 🇵🇭 Singapore 🇸🇬, France 🇫🇷, Australia 🇦🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 and China🇹🇼】
The moral values he wrote and insisted on his citizens are what made Taiwan successful today. Additionally, during the 1949 and early 50s migration to China, every educator, scientist, engineer, wealthy businessman, royal descendant sided with him instead of Mao. This also contributes the wealth and technology development of Taiwan today. I am not surprised the descendants of Tang, Song and Ming dynasty are in Taiwan instead of China today
@Chang JungChia The monuments of those dynasties are the treasures inside the National Museum and Taipei 101 that brought by the KMT. The descendants... who knows where? As for Chiang, no doubt he is a dictator and when you are in power for so long, you are going to have rivals and conflicts. My point is.. without the migration of ROC to Taiwan and his principles, the island would not be as successful as it is today. Don't even tell me the Hokkiens and indigenous people alone could turn Taiwan into developed country. Additionally, without ROC present, PRC would have easily taken the island anyway after 1949 just like how they took over TIbet and Xinjiang.. Taiwan would have either fall under PRC or stay as an independent country with a GDP no more than the average SEA country
@lati long you literally wrote a short essay. I simply replied to you stating the specific year the Spanish first started and finished their rule over Netherland. I did not state anything else. I never said I agreed or disagreed with anyone. Just simply the fact that 158 years is how long Spain had rule over Netherland. Other than that I have absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the conversation.
My friend Brad Kuo used to tell me stories of his father boiling one egg in the street for lunch. I didn't believe that story, but now I guess I can see it.
@@chinaiscoming1017 When China is coming to steal territory in my country, it becomes my business. I am simply watching how China behaves in Taiwan. I think it is you to whom I should say, Leave us alone!
@@alicedykeman1526 Are you sure Taiwan was forced to leave the United Nations? Didn't Nixson tell Chiang Kai-shek to go for independence and Chiang refused?
Calling Chiang Kai-shek Taiwanese is the ultimate irony. Taiwanese independence movement was one of the three most harshly prosecuted political activities during his - and his son’s long tenure of terror on the island - along with anti-Kuomintang movements and communism. Having lost Mainland China, the man had all the legitimacy of his rule in Taiwan at stake of his regime’s claim on all of China. Should they admit they’re really ruling over just a small rock, Chiang will meet his reckoning in no time. Shows how little current western audience really know about history of Taiwan. Oh well, like people really bother to care.
Chiang Kai-shek was no different from the warlords of his time! He was a dictator and his regime was rife with corruption. His wife Madam Song keeps going to US for more 'aids' and many of these aids ended in the pockets of his commanders! US were sick of her never ending asking for money that she was given a nickname 'Madam US dollars' meaning that she never stop asking for more money from the US. This is why he lost China to the communist! Had he been a slightly better leader, he would not have lost China to Mao's CCP. It was the same for both the Korean war and the Vietnam war that the regimes supported by the US were so hopelessly corrupted that the peasants not knowing what is communism turned to the communist when the communists promised the peasants that they will be given redistributed free land if the communists wins the war.
Cannot agree more. It reminds me the ancient Chinese history Three Kingdoms. Liu Beijing's legitimacy of ruling Szechuan is out of his sovergnity claim of the whole China.
You're right, nobody cares because the so called "movements" were insignificant, meaningless and outright ludicrous. Curiously, now that he and his "harsh persecutions" are no more for decades, why hasn't your "independence" come to pass ?! Contrary to your opinion, most people had the most favorable memory during their tenure. Only the ones bent on undermining the national security would meet their "terror".
@@tihao3216 Well, seriously I don't get why people hate Chiang so much...as flawed and dictatorial as he was, I think his intentions were not so bad at first. So yes, Chiang killed several thousand Taiwanese people, that is indeed wrong. But at least he killed far, FAR fewer people than Mao! And without him, Taiwan would today be a PRC province... :(
@@ArnoldTeras I think just a perspective different, the hater is mostly hardcore either pro Mao (which a tiny minority in China today), and hardcore Democratic party politician. The average Chinese and Taiwan doesn't view him badly. Taiwanese probably in favor of his son thought.
If only Chiang Kai-shek's prescient concerns had been better heeded. The US and Europe might not have been so quick to grant such one-sided trade policies (that so favored China).
it is credibly silly that people believe China could be contain, the one that open the door to China isn't EU or US, it was Japan. US had to trade with China because otherwise the Japanese will dominate the Chinese market which is huge. US did this to contain Japan. the west need to stop being so high on itself, not everything is the result of their action. alot of time it was other countries that made the choice. as to why Japan is willing to open to China, doing so was the only way Japan could be the 2nd largest economy for so long. I am impress with Japan, they managed to play the US.
Matheus, why am I not surprised that you are a neo-fascist Bolsonaro supporter (supporting Putin's war against Ukraine). We can only hope that da Silva wins on Oct 31and that rule-of-law and freedom-of-the-press matter once again in Brazil.
totally wrong. The war during 1946-1949 was definitely not a "struggle for power between two ruthless men". After the war, China lost 1/10 of its territory to Mao's "top boss" Stalin ("top boss" was quoted from Mao). From the result of the war, it is clear that it is a war between China and the Soviets and their stooges, not "for power between two men". The CCP was created as a lackey organization by Lenin who occupied 1/10 of China's territory Mongolia and Tova eliminating its Han Chinese population (15% of its total). Here is Truman's "China Policy": "China was simply too weak and too poor to justify a major commitment of American resources. In Asia, Japan, with a tenth China’s population and territory but far more industrial potential, held the key to regional control.--so, China was defeated by the Soviet Union and its stooges (rf. Michael Schaller's book).
this is simply not true. The CCP was never Stalin's stooge. I understand where you are coming from, about certain concessions that the CCP granted to Stalin, but to say that the CCP is just Stalin's stooge is just wrong lmao. Mao and Stalin always had a tense relationship and both sides greatly distrusted each other until when the PRC decided to get involved in the Korean War.
@@wingedhussars5576 what you stated is so untrue, Mao and Stalin conspired to over thrown Koumingtang Republic of China...Mao followed the foot step of Stalin, and Mao wanted all of China under Marxism-Leninism rule. The only disagreement with stalin and Mao is when stalin said no Civil War between the Koumingtang and the CCP when spilt China south and North, but Mao wanted all of China. Stalin aided Mao to take China from Koumingtang party the official government of China then...
Total fertility rate in Taiwan province when this was first broadcast in 1971: 3.963. Today fertility rate in Taiwan in 2023: 1.236. War or peace, the future looks rocky.
I really want to show this documentary to anyone who believes that Taiwan isn't china, i mean look 10:08 they are teached Chinese history and the journalist (whom i disagree with on many many topics) keeps mentioning that the people of Taiwan are Chinese in fact to him they are attached to thier Chinese culture and history more than thier counterparts on the mainland ! One Nation, One Country, One China.
Still questionable why he used Japanese from the Nanking Massacre for his army. Same goes for Mao. I just can’t comprehend why Chinese lost millions of people every decade in those times.
Chiang Kai-shek never said in his life that he was a Taiwanese, he was the president of the Republic of China, the president of China. He was not the president of Taiwan.
I believe we all hope for a democratic China
because taiwan official name is ____
@@三囧-x7e Its an important difference. Chiang Kai-shek did not think that Taiwan's official name was the "Republic of China". He did not see Taiwan as a separate country but as merely a province in China and in his view the Republic of China was not just limited to Taiwan but it was all of China which included Taiwan.
At this very moment no one says The Taiwan is not Republic of China. Trying to divide them can not change the reality.
@@unknownsoldier9438 yea because the civil war literally didn't end. Taiwan today is the remnants of the ROC that once governed the entirety of China
I found this interview to be profound. The old 60 Minutes crew was far superior than their current peers. The questions and comments were thought provoking and meaningful. Wow!
Agreed. Same with everything else.
Go woke, go broke. 60 mins suffered the consequence.
@@kovy689 Why is 60 Minutes "Woke" is it cause anything you disagree with is "woke"?
@@rayman17578 If you can’t tell 60 mins recently went woke, then you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years.
@@kovy689 Okay boomer
@@rayman17578 Not my fault you live under a rock…
I got to see Madame Chiang give an English speech in Taipei in 1987, and she was so well educated and erudite. She was 89 years old but spoke like a 70 year old, except with the most proper grammar and diction. Better than 99% of Americans.
Better than 99 percent is a bit of an exaggeration! Lol
Madame Chiang Kai Shek (Soong Mei Ling) and Hillary Rotham Clinton graduated from Wesley College.
She was a beneficiary of Missionary education
@@dnguyen787 *understatement if comparing with modern-day Americans
@@user-lr4jg7tc5x Rubbish! LOL
Chiang Kai-shek would beat you up if he knew he was called "Taiwanese".
@@body187j3x1 sadly he's just gonna have to settle for loser
@@leolliang 他最後一定會成為贏家，歷史事實總有一天會還他公道。
不用强调什麽人
台湾是他终其一生
捍衛下及建設的國土。
@@chuchu1005那是因为他把台湾当作中国的一部分啊
Chiang is always the President of China,it never change.
軍人氣質彰顯無疑，老總統領導中國革命歷經北伐、剿共、抗戰，走過了中華民國最不平凡的歲月，向他致敬。
Respect chiang kai shek from poland
@@kwascytrynowy6948 Best wishes to Rzeczpospolita Polska
@@kwascytrynowy6948 for invading Poland with the nahtzees by his son?
@@HouseOod Bro what you talking about?
So you prefer capitalism?
This 1971 archive is a gem, it's surprisingly objective without bias and propaganda. Nowadays western 'main stream' media has lost the capability to produce such fact based reports.
lol the "fact" is that they are speaking in favour of your position
Comparing him to Camelot and Kennedy is propaganda
lol why is main stream in quotes?
Obama legalized propaganda against American citizens in 2012.
I love him and support Republic of China
I think he is one of China's greatest heroes, if deeply misunderstood and often criticized and attacked in the West. Yes, he killed lots of people to stop Communism, but he also saved an entire civilization from the Japanese.
He saved the japanese you mean hence their govt in exile in Japan per pf chang matriarch bragging.
Arnold You Are Believing Fake News.
He was rightfully criticized for a lot of mistakes and issues. As much as I wish he was a great leader, he was not. He was very very inept in later years and could not handle the communists attacks and handled Taiwan very badly
What about the tens of thousands of innocent civilians he had massacred?
He was absolutely an awful military strategist compared to Mao.
As an overseas Chinese diaspora, I must thank Mr. Chiang for staying true to his beliefs and doing what he believed was best for China. Chinese outside the mainland will always remember him.
This is a remarkable journalistic masterpiece. Completely neutral and factual. Thought-provoking. Thank you, @60 Minutes.
中華民國萬歲！🇹🇼
I miss the days when the KMT actually had principles and were anti-Communist. Today most KMT politicians just suck up to the CCP.
中華民國萬歲!🇹🇼
You know he ordered the massacres of tens of thousands of innocent people right? Not to mention the 36 years of martial law.
he is an american puppy!!
大陆人也记得他
Morley Safer is a great reporter who really tries to learn the subject and explore the nuances - true journalism👍🏼
Realistically, there are two China.
China officially name is People's Republic of China.
Taiwan officially name is Republic of China.
Taiwan is a country like South Vietnam in the past. Or a country like South Korea now.
i'm south korean. reunification of motherland!!!
I agree. If you listen to the commentary, it's so much better than the crap we hear now in the news. It's more in-depth than what we have now - at least in the U.S.
The media was afraid to call out Chiang Kai Shek as a fraud for fear of losing their job or be killed and it happened till this interview where Morley Safer said so called. Someone called him out and lost their teaching job. I guess with the interview the Maniac General couldn't touch Morley Safer in fear of all those companies combined with more revenue could pull out their investments.
@@katrinoy1 legally, Taiwan was never, is not and will never be a country. Those ones who say “realistically” Taiwan is a country are the ones who live in delusion. Have you read ROC’s constitution?
@@katrinoy1 I like Korea a lot, but I must say that the situation in Taiwan is very different from Vietnam and Korea.
Our history is not like Vietnam and Korea, the North and South have developed together for a long time.
Taiwan appeared on the world stage during the Dutch colonial period in 1624, along with the Spanish colonization of northern Taiwan. Next, in 1662, the Zheng Chenggong family, the son of pirates of the Ming Dynasty, ruled Taiwan. We were not included in the territory of the Qing Dynasty until 1683. After the Sino-Japanese War, we were colonized by Japan in 1895 until 1945. In the end, Taiwan was used as a base for returning to the mainland by the fugitive KMT regime that lost the civil war.
This man was born in 1887 fascinating.
Six years senior Mao.
@@iqbang9236
He was 24 or 25 when Qing fell
Not About Taiwan or China; It’s About The People It’s About Carrying Forward The Chinese Culture + Art + Technology & Continuously Inspiring The Younger Generation!
Nationalistic, triumphalist nonsense.
What an amazing interview. This brings much more clarity to understand the current relationship between US-China-Taiwan than what today's mainstream media can provide.
america support authoritarianism , this general chiang kai shek imposed martial law in republic of china aka taiwan for close to 40 years
My family fled from China due to the religious persecution of Christians under the CCP. Our family lost everything making it to America for the Freedom of Religion. But so many..... entire families were disappeared, just for believing in a higher power than Mao Zedong.
Now the Uyghurs face the same thing under Xi Jinping.
SO much has happened since this interview that it loses relevancy by the day. Modern Taiwanese are not fond of Chiang Kai-Shek and what he did to the country.
@@TaiwanisMoving
Who are you trying to convince?
@@Tacit_Tern Just pointing out that contrary to the person I replied to, the old relationship between China and Taiwan does not apply to today.
Here because of TH-cam's algorithm. This is amazing!
This is an amazing piece of history. I'm surprised how in depth of the thought and the desire to better understand the subject matter was demonstrated by the interviewer. There was hardly any traces of arrogance, presumptuousness and biase on display here, in stark contrast to today's mainstream media.
Could not agree more!
CKS himself is a critical figure in the CBI theater in World War II. I guess the crew was just showing due respect.
Agreed. Very different from the arrogant interview Mike Wallace gave Jian Zemin.
bhh
Are we watching the same thing?
This is true journalism, without taking sides, unlike today’s modern western media counterparts, despite their full access to information via the internet and social media.
Today’s media must return to the good old journalistic practices of the old days.
1. Not really. This was 1971, when the UN officially switched it's official recognition of China to the mainland rather than to Taiwan. Nixon was also about to pivot to Mainland China in order to drive a wedge between it and the Soviet Union, and his team actually considered the reunification of the two Chinas under the communist leadership to be inevitable -- a matter of when, not if. (Chiang even considered a scheme where Taiwanese fighter jets would be painted to look like Mainland jets, and where they would shoot down Air Force One while it was en route to Peking.) America was just coming to terms with the reality that Mainland China was the China it had to deal with, so it's understandable why it became more willing to acknowledge that Taiwan was a dictatorship. Also, the report here is unequivocal that the Taiwanese economic model was superior. As for the cultural stuff the report discusses, that all comes from Orientalism. Both were just exotic to Americans.
2. Non-western media nowadays is _not_ biased?
You're right, Chinese media is accustomed to do that,they never tell people a truth 😂😂😂
As a person from mainland China, i was in tears watching this interview. Mr. Chiang is my president forever. He really loves China and its people. So sad he didn’t take back the mainland and we are still in the unfree China😢
What your opinion on Communist party ruling in china from Mao to Xi
Please don't give up hope.
One day, Chinese people will have freedom and protection of human rights.❤
@@jennylee1802❤
We the Chinese owe him a big time! Today’s China is turning his way, communism is no more.
蒋匪介石是压迫台湾人民施行白色恐怖的独裁者。台湾独立万岁！
We have uncovered so much history since 1971. Today, I would no longer say Chiang was equally ruthless as Mao.
How would you believe that crap.
He was ruthless but not as mao lol
One of the best reports on Chinese Taiwan issue so far.
Absolutely incredible interview and to hear Chiang Kai-shek. Far superior journalism than those of today and understand more the relationship between China CCP and Taiwan of today.
Full name is Taiwan ROC, in the past few years, ROC (republic of China) is being removed slowly and slowly from major media, to remove the historical connection with China. When entering Taiwan boarder, like airport, it still shows Taiwan ROC
What is CCP? there is no CCP in China. If you talk about the relationship to CPC, it should not be Taiwan, it should be KMT. Both CPC and KMT are parties. It is party to party relationship.
@@kristyy2488 No, the full name is not "Taiwan ROC", it is ROC.
@@shawnhennity1769 that’s before 1949, back then it was one China governed by Democratic Party and capital was in Nanjing…. Anyway, the point is, Taiwan does not want any ‘C’ mentioned in any forms of country name anymore.
@@kristyy2488
Both in the history of the mainland and Taiwan, there has never been a "Democratic Party." Don't invent BS.
Anyway, it is not up to Taiwan to want to or not want to mention China. Taiwan was a part of China, always is and will be. Period.
I could watch these old 60 minutes episodes for hours on end….
I started studying Chinese in 1972 because of the ping pong diplomacy, went to Taiwan in 1973 to become fluent, and lived there for 11 years and still visit every year. The reporter had just been to China during the Cultural Revolution when millions were killed. He was already mouthing the very pro-China line that continued until very recently, and it was started by these neophytes.
I have cousins on both sides. Taiwan is still today officially ROC. What do you mean pro China? I don't want my people to be another chess piece like Ukraine. We would like status quo please. It was your country who sold ROC for a dollar and recognised the CCP. The same now you are using Ukraine to destroy Russia.
@言行一致 鲁采哈米是干你娜BO？If you are Chinese or Taiwanese, you will certainly understand this, Google Translate won't work.
Glory to Chiang Kai-shek! Glory to Republic Of China! 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
That Was the Week That Was, informally TWTWTW or TW3, was a satirical television comedy programme that aired on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. TWTWTW
Glory to the people of Taiwan not only surviving the regime but also turning the island from a dictatorship to a prosperous democracy.
@@GerhardWanninger-fi4bl Very true statement!
先總統蔣先生，在中國大陸時期就已經看透了共產黨，在大陸時期，自第一次北伐戰爭末期就已經在反共了，而美國政府卻讓他和共產黨和解，如今一切都證明了他的對與錯。
共产党做的很不错啊，共产党怎么了？
剿匪不力還能嫁禍美國阿
@@ssskkk8734 千萬人頭落地，萬千文物被砸，穢史宣傳洗腦，賦紅暴打碾壓，查禁閹割日常，真的是做的很好
@@rogerwang1474 美国在1946年国军取得优势的时候逼迫蒋停战，且之后对中华民国实施武器禁运。实际上国民政府被美国抛弃是失去大陆的重要原因，而这是美国历史上最大的外交失误。
未待共軍解放，國軍內部倒蔣勢力先開第一槍。
很辛苦的年代！軍民一心面對萬難！
台灣史上最黑暗的年代，沒有言論自由，出版自由，出國自由，結社自由，身心靈被禁錮的黑暗年代！
@@liebfraumilch3518 日本帝國體制下的台灣亦沒有好到哪去
比起50年代前後東亞與東南亞普遍的內戰與飢荒問題，台灣的處境算是比較好的
@@liebfraumilch3518他不这样做，国民党就玩完了，台湾现在就是红色
Chiang answer was profound... He hoped that America will see the long term challenge that communist China will pose but Americans were short sighted and more focused to destroy Soviets... America in 2022 made the same mistake.
I hope western people can watch this and actually understand the complexities of the PRC-ROC relationship. It’s never about China and Taiwan, but rather about Communist China and Nationalist China. The country is the same, the ideology and party is what differs.
Both parties always emphasize on unity, but obviously according to their own rule and values. Which is why the calls for “Taiwan independence” is one of modern fabrications, and very likely driven by western powers, especially the US, to divide and conquer China, much like how their ancestors did their business when trying to colonize and subjugate non-White countries in the past.
Chiang learned from his mistakes of losing China, many changes transformd the island into a miracle place. Farmers produce the most amazing agricultural products. Scientists invent the most advanced technology in micro chips. People are friendly and helpful. The best place you can find good eats. They deserve to be treated with respects and protected for their own existence.
And yet today's younger Taiwanese spit at Chiang.... Can't blame them though, he did start the White Terror after all.
Thanks!
@H L They weren't very different in terms of leadership.
The tens of thousands of natives killed by him and his crew would disagree about the miracle place
@H L Both
Thank you for posting. very good report.
What an interesting piece! More than fifty years later, both the mainland and Taiwan have changed a lot.
Realistically, there are two China.
China officially name is People's Republic of China.
Taiwan officially name is Republic of China.
Taiwan is a country like South Vietnam in the past. Or a country like South Korea now.
i'm south korean. reunification of motherland!!!
@@katrinoy1 But it is clear that today's Taiwanese don't think they are "China".
@@katrinoy1 ROC is just like a damn parasite nearly died but not yet
@@katrinoy1 There is two regimes with "China" on their name, but only the PRC is China, as it's in the territory of the historical China. Taiwan was not part of China in ancient times, it was just an overseas colony for the manchurians, that got filled up with Chinese "illegal" fugitives during XVII-XX centuries.
@@AC-he8ln who was ur history teacher? some dude graduated with physical ed degree..,?? lmao , western mentality , colonialism ,
- God, I miss Taiwan! 💙🇹🇼❤️
This video is a gem
President Chiang ，Salute！
蔣公晚年的神韻，氣定神閒，因為他知道，歷史終將還給他一個公道 🇹🇼！
什麼公道？
蒋的一切行为都是对的
死去的河南人民和江西人民的公道呢？
大陆的历史界早在上世纪八十年代就已经为蒋公翻案，今后随着政治的改变蒋公归葬之日不远矣。
@@航王航也是专治独裁者，且还世袭！
He's definitely one of the 20 century legendary Chinese leader
超級珍貴的畫面！！！！！
蒋公剿匪不利，丧失了大陆
Pretty fair reporting its just crazy to me that this was 51 years ago
Yes, this is part of the reason why some of us in Taiwan are so frustrated lol. It literally started from my grandparents' generation to my generation and has still not come to an end.
Chiang as a Chinese has such good teeth given his age and the time he lived!
Fake teeth. You can find a mention of it in the reports about Xi-An incident. Btw, I respect this man.
@@seanzhao5321Make sense. I think morally he is better than Mao!
@@M85331 I mean it doesn't take much to be less evil than Mao.
@@tylerbozinovski427 Given the Chinese history, rulers like Mao are common
哈哈。我喜欢看西方人谈中国历史。虽然啥也不知道。
西元1907年，一個在日本留學的20歲中國青年，在與表哥書信往來中提到一段話：
「騰騰殺氣滿全球，力不如人萬事休，光我神州盡我責，東來志豈在封侯」。
四年後，1911年，他親自率領99名敢死隊青年，猛攻浙江巡撫衙門，光復杭州。
15年後，這個青年帶領一支軍隊，從廣州出發，打到北京，統一中國。
17年後，青年步入了中年，但救國之心沒變，他跟英國，美國，兩大強國的領袖平起平坐，把中國一百年來的不平等條約，全部廢除。
這個青年，名叫蔣介石。🇹🇼
我还以为你说的是孙中山。。。。
@@Sharer01 毕竟是台湾那边的教育，运输大队长的黑历史就被删掉了
這個青年在日本还玩过3P. 怪不得蔣介石很喜欢日本
我喜欢蒋先生！要是他还在大陆就好了，怎么着也不会有大跃进饥荒文革和现在的防火墙
@@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj 你是台湾人吧，花园口战神和金圆券银圆券外加中美友好条约的威力你跟本没领教过。要不然一个共产党怎么可能把占尽天时地利的国民政府赶到台湾，在人和这方面国民党跟蒋介石属实把自己玩死了🤣🤣
They used to have real journalism back then.
most good material ever produced was from before 2000
This is literally propaganda what are you saying. Chiang made them come with pre answered questions. Chiang was just another warlord that lost thats about it.
A very precious piece that preserves CKS image and talk, even though the reporter was clearly taking side of the CCP in his seemingly unbiased comparison between Mao and CKS, and between communist China and Taiwan. As a Chinese born and raised in Taiwan, I appreciated what CKS has done to preserve Chinese culture and the dignity of humans.
B.S.
@@tsengtanshuy628 As a kid growing up in the 50's, the Detroit Michigan school I attended ( run by the same educators as Madame Chiang"s) had us young students believing Chiang was a "savior".... it was not until I moved to Taichung 5 years ago that I learned the truth. corrupt, ruthless, beastly, - that is the real CKS. FYI in November 2022 The New Yorker published an outstanding article on the recent history of Taiwan -- Madison Bright -YOU need to check it out.
@@earogc1 What is the title of the article in November 2022??
Although he also killed a large number of Taiwanese.
@@FlyingMan-n6p
chiang Kai-shek is the great man and eternal president of the Republic of China!!!
Chiang Kaishek was as much a ruthless dictator as Mao Zedong, or even worse. Even taiwanese don't like Chiang Kaishek, go figure. Chiang Kaishek was so ruthless that he was kicked out of the United Nations in 1972, and people prefer calling Mao Zedongs China as the one and only representation of China, because Mao was even more progressive than Chiang was
This archive is so powerful~wow!!!
中国人民心中永远的英雄， 抗战8年没有说过放弃，足矣！
张学良杨虎城把枪指我脑袋，我也不放弃
是你心中的英雄，我从来没当她是英雄。抗战被打得节节败退，台湾现在分离不就是他造成的吗
@@嘉乐陈-p7s 沒有蔣介石，中國早就落入日本人的手中！ 沒有蔣介石，台灣早就淪為極權主義了！
美国的奴才，至今也没有爬起来！
It wasn't enough for the human kind.
FDR dropped the ball during WW2: He propped up the USSR which led to Stalin getting his friend Mao in power in China. We often don't think of the consequences of US involvement in WW2.
Hitler invaded USSR in June 1941. We didn't enter until Dec 1941. Only because of Japan. Germany declared war on us three days later. Then we declared war. It wasn't really a choice.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 Do some more research. You are starting the story in the middle and what was taught in schools. FDR dragged the US into war against the interest of the country.
@@waverunner7063 He supported England with Lend-Lease Program but the U.S. was attacked by Japan and war on the U.S. was declared by Germany, not the other way around.
@@waverunner7063 Had Germany not invaded the Soviet Union, it may have remained neutral in the war still occupying Eastern Poland. F.D.R. took what came to him. Communist China was created in 1949, 4 years after Roosevelt's death. At the time of his death, Chiang was the ruler of China.
@@anthonyfuqua6988 Why did Japan attack? Why did Germany declare war? Don't start the story in the middle. FDR was a racist warmonger and communist sympathizer.
Taiwan is very different from what it was in 1971 due to democratization!
Long life freedom of Taiwan!
The freedom KMT and Chinese people sacrificed themselves to brought to Taiwan and Penghu...
Taiwanese people fought for freedom and independence.
At the time of this interview, Taiwan was emerging as one of the Four Asia Dragons and steadily making progresses as a society while at the same time, mainland China was in the middle of its cultural revolutions and policy mistakes that killed tens of millions of its own people. Since then, 50 years later, Taiwan has became a full fledged democracy and adapted western values while mainland continues to hold on to its communism ideology and remains as an authoritarian state. The respectable journalists at 60 Minutes failed to see the differences between the two and often compared the two regimes without pointing out the crucial differences. While no one in 1971 can predict what is going to happen 50 years later but there is no excuse for ignoring what was happening then.
Taiwan may have been having economic success but at the time it was a totally repressive fascist regime. Democratic reforms didn't happen until the late 80's. At the time this was filmed Taiwan was a one party dictatorship and political dissidents were all jailed or shot. It is pretty easy to see why an outside observe would see more similarities than differences with it to Mao's China.
@@unknownsoldier9438Do u know the definition of fascism cupcake? Stop throwing a word around that u know nothing of😊
@@unknownsoldier9438 you apparently have no knowledge on the local politics of Taiwan under Chang Kai-shek. Local elections were held. In terms of fundamental social fabric and individual rights, Chang's Taiwan was completely different from communist China. Communist China has been fundamentally governed by collectivities. There is no individual right to speak of. Everything one has including his life belongs to the party-state. In Chang's Taiwan, individualism existed and individual rights existed.
There, this wise man had warned the US right then and there 50 years ago that despite their smiling campaign, the communists will not change. And it took the Americans 50 years to finally come to terms with this reality. The reporter was arrogant and highly biased in his interpretations of something he didn’t fully understand. The sheer murdering of hundreds of millions of Chinese by starvation and persecution in Mao’s regime alone would make equating the two Chinas under different leaderships simply because they still both pretty much look like Chinese laughable. As Chiang put it at the end, loyalty and faithfulness are the principles and trust for friendship, yet in history the US had unfathomably repeatedly betrayed and exploited Chiang’s China in favor of the communists whom the US itself had aimed to eliminate in its own county ?!
Yep, Chiang was Based. He knew their deceptions when he saw one.
red necks???
Agreed.How could US betrayed a honest ally that see them through WW2 so they could stall ample time to develope critical anecdotes to end the war?Just for the sake of counteract balancing Soviet Union,now they were ones regretting.养虎为患是老美的传统
Good to see Mr. Wei. I knew he was talented in many ways but I never knew his English was so fluent. He was my dad's ex boss in BCC.
Do you know his Chinese name?
@@sylvasia8287 魏景蒙 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wei
His granddaughter is a famous movie star, Sylvia Chang.
@@sylvasia8287 魏景蒙
Did y'all know the US had plans to assinated Chiang Kai Shek? They wanted to throw him out a plane and claim it was an accident. Look it up.
But luckily for Chiang, that plan never went through.
Howd you know that
@@walkwithmisuk我也知道，是史迪威，而且是三次暗殺未成功，這些羅斯福也知道
where can we get his original voice instead of English translation?
At this interview, Chiang's age is two years more than Biden's current age. His early rise and success was built upon the funding from Comintern and the assistance of Red Army officers and commissars. He rebuilt KMT to a Leninist party with a party loyal army. His alliance with the US brought him a big win over Japan. But Mao with Stalin's support stole away the fruit of victory. He was a stubborn nationalist, his view influenced China then as it does now. My two cents.
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What Radio FM can we tune into for this programming????????????????????????
It is refresh to watch the history and is amazing to see the history is repeating itself at this moment.
This was very interesting. Thank you.
That man was a hero.
Sorry, far from it. The whole shameful matter of Chiang Kai-shek is covered quite well in Barbara Tuchman's "Stilwell" and Henry Kissinger's "On China".
@@frankodesandy4688 Henry Kissinger lol yea he is a real saint.
@@fatronjones Oh Lordy, no! Not a saint!
@@frankodesandy4688 Sarcasm
He was a puppet of US
No matter why the International Olympic Committee called the delegation "Chinese Taipei". Very few Olympians come from ROC/TPE. SUMMER: First medalist from ROC/TPE: Yang Chuan-kwang (as Formosa/RCF) (Rome 1960, Athletics, Men's Decathlon, Silver); First female medalist, Chi Cheng (as TWN) (Mexico City 1968, Athletics, Women's 80-Meter Hurdles, Bronze); First Gold Medal: Chen Shih-hsin (Athens 2004, Taekwondo, Women's Flyweight) and Chu Mu-yen (Athens 2004, Taekwondo, Men's Flyweight). Of the 72 total athletes in the WINTER Olympic Games from ROC/TPE, none have earned a medal. They were first delegated at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Multiple Gold Medalist: Hsu Shu-ching (London 2012 and Rio 2016, both Women's 53 kg Weightlifting)
非常好的节目。希望能有中文字幕
蔣中正和蔣經國，不只是中國的偉人，更是世界的偉人。
Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo are not only great men of China, but also great people of the world.
Never see this interview in Taiwan, first time.
because this is censored and suppressed by the current tw government as the facts run counter to their narrative
緬懷先總統蔣公
228大屠殺的元凶
CKS’s leadership in Taiwan spared Taiwan from falling into CCP dictatorship, and created today’s prosperity in Taiwan.
Chiang could have wiped out Mao and the CCP, but then WW2 started. The Nationalists were severely weakened by Japan and then were defeated by the CCP. China's sorrow is that they can never find good government.
wipe out？which Chinese history book are you reading. after the defeat of japanese Changkaishek still has an army way more powerful than ccp had. He has american artillery, weapon and tanks. His army outnumbered ccp. Why was he defeated. Have you thought of that from the Chinese perspective ？
@@林度-g2u If you're from China, your history books are complete garbage. Go reeducate yourself.
Realistically, there are two China.
China officially name is People's Republic of China.
Taiwan officially name is Republic of China.
Taiwan is a country like South Vietnam in the past. Or a country like South Korea now.
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China lacks good government? Then how did they eliminate poverty and rise to be the #2 economy in the world?
KMT under Chiang is nothing more than a corrupt oligarchy ruling China, that's why he defeated from public anger. Today's ROC has derailed what Sun Yat Sean pledged.
RIP
Chiang Kai-shek
(1887-1975)
Believe me, Americans need a little history. Chiang Kai-shek was definitely a more brutal person than Mao Zedong.
President Chiang will not say Taiwan will say Republic of China.
其實他自己早知道中華民國早就滅亡了
You are wrong. He is not Taiwan's CKS. He is ROC CKS.
Who would’ve thought that his small island would become so prosperous.
I believe that the average income was only $175/year in 1960. Today, Taiwan is a rich country.
Taiwan never started as a democracy no matter what anyone says. Of course, things are different now but how different? We have "democracy' here too but you know.....
It's true changing a culture takes decades. The documentary is so true on living in China, but not too much on how people are different in their minds.
當年因為有中共老毛的追殺
處於「戰爭戒嚴時期」
人民的想法不重要
當年捍衛台灣不被中共奪走
是當下之急
Interesting 60 Minutes as usual, the Chinese Leader revered by by all Chinese is Sun Yat Sun. But the post-Imperial collapse had so many war lords, as usual in Chinese history, to claim their portions. The Marxism promoted by Mao was opportunistic and timely for rural Chinese to civil war victory. Nonetheless, the common enemies were Japan and many colonising Westerners. As a overseas Chinese community in Singapore or Malaya then, our allegiance was through Sun struggle with Qin Imperial power and then Japan. The Mao era came as community divider and eventually more pro-Mao than against. Nonetheless, many overseas Chinese communities had to ally with their new home identity but pray for good outcome for Mao China and Chiang Taiwan. Naturally, most overseas Chinese prefer Taiwan to remain as status quo but part of mainland China. It's a tall dream as social and cultural evolution continue in its own paths. But war between Chinese is not an answer.
As an overseas Chinese, I also concur with your statement! All Chinese should all be proud of our rich history and culture and use it to bridge the difference between Taiwan and China. Ruthless and aggressively ambitious leaders from both sides are to be blamed.
@@dl4195 But do your people not support Chinese democracy? It does bother me how pro-Communist China they are nowadays, when lots of other Asian countries are increasingly scared of China's growing power and influence. :(
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50 years of history...!
This is authentic journalism reporting with no bias that I can see not like the bs on all the media with loads of crap propaganda
one china that is ROC,not PRC
The USA commitment was with CKS ROC but not the DPP Separatists !
Too bad! DPP is a 100% legal party today. Seem like you are still stuck in the past.
Separatists: the advocacy or practice of separation of a certain group of people from a larger body based on ethnicity, religion, or gender. I think you don't understand the world 'separatist'😷
great work
When he described China's foreign policy he described sovereignty! This is how a man who was funded by the US since 1920s is happy not to have a sovereign country but fully act as a puppet for the US regime. This is because he was never able to gain the support of the people and had to escape and was only assisted to escape by the US. He was a weak man leading a gangster regime totally supported by the US. In 1950 as war broke out in Korea the US put the 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Straits and his funding continued. China became the threat, US bases remained in Japan, South Korea lost its sovereignty and Vietnam was next to divide and conquer. The US regime has a lot of bad history to deal with, but soon there will be a reckoning of the scales.
The reality now is there are two separate governments given out their own passport. One democratic with rights to vote and one with one single party CCP. You pick which one you want to support. Democracy or communism.
I despise the one-party system, and the development of this country is also abnormal.
How about letting Chinese people decide for themselves? You know... Democracy n stuff...
I pick the side the majority of Chinese support. it their country not mine.
You know Taiwan was not remotely democratic in any way until the 90s, right?
If those 1.4 billion people in the mainland have the right to vote, the first thing we vote for is to united Taiwan island by force
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繁體字
@言行一致 連我是外國人我也憎恨簡體字
@@maxime9420 Unfortunately, many Chinese could only write the simplified Chinese. They learned how to read the traditional Chinese from secretly reading the Kung Fu novels.
@@alicedykeman1526 三小？
As a mainlander, I respect him. He is so much better than CCP.
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I was a Geography major, graduated 1994. Last class I took was a summer school class at UNC Chapel Hill Geography department. It was a high level Geography class about East Asia. The instructor was an old guy, nice guy he'd been to all the Asian countries to include North Korea, Vietnam and even Mongolia. He said the worst country he visited was North Korea...he said NK was stark, bleak, depressing and they were under surveillance from the time he got off the aircraft in North Korea until the time he left. Said thats just how it is there... Stalinist communist dictatorship. Another thing he talked about was Taiwan and he mentioned the Taiwanese frogmen. Notice at the end of this 60 Minutes documentary all the Taiwanese frogmen are wearing those tan UDT shorts Anerican SEAL TEAMs, UDT frogmen and reconnaissance Marines wear. The Taiwanese frogmen maintain a tight relationship with the American Naval Special Warfare community. The Geography instructor said in class that sometimes Taiwanese frogmen would sneak into mainland China (coastal) and have a beer or two at a bar. Said they spoke the same language. Then theyd slip back to Taiwan. Pretty dangerous but thise guys are seriously fit and well trained and well motivated.
It would be better to have subtitles rather than dub, so we can hear his own voice.
As a Taiwanese, this is the first time seeing CKS in a interview, mind totally blown!
11:54 looks like he knows the dream would never be realised, but he doesn't want to die 😂
他将永远活在我心中！而且他希望以文化光复大陆，我觉得他的梦，并不是没有实现的可能！只是不在他的有生之年！
I don’t think the one in the interview is Chiang Kai Shek because Chiang didn’t speak English and his looks is very different🤔
@@wonderfulwang9988may be this generation can achieve his dream for him
@@Huobaojiqi I don't know why you mention English. CKS was speaking Chinese in the video and someone was translating for him.
This is interesting. In 1971 Chiang Kai-shek and his government information chief (James Hui) were both confident that their government on the island Republic of China (Taiwan) would one day regain mainland China. It appears as though the reporter was somewhat prophetic when he asked Mr. Hui, "...isn't the dream of regaining the mainland really just a pipe dream...?" Mr. Hui responded with, "...it's no dream. It's very real...". Well, it's now January of 2023 and Taiwan has yet to regain mainland China. In fact, in the last couple of decades the story has been that mainland China will eventually retake Taiwan, which it has always considered to be a so-called runaway republic, by force if necessary. It will be just as interesting to see how this plays out in the next several years. Excellent work by the reporter.
Yes but there isn’t really a ‘Communist” China now. So if there is reunification, it’s not quite as far off what Hui talked about.
@@sunnywintermorning1941- You're missing the point. Chiang Kai-shek, James Hui and the Nationalist Party fled to the island of Taiwan in 1949 and set up a government there. They also had this idea that they would one day return to the mainland and retake China. However, after all these years it has been China who has been threatening to retake Taiwan instead. We'll see what the future holds.
NOTE: My personal take on this is that the Taiwanese people are free to determine their own fate.
@@barrybarry-bb28 I’m not sure my point was understood. But I can’t think of a better way to have put it. Perhaps by asking you: Do you really think there is a ‘Communist’ China now?
Separately the persons you mentioned fled to a Chinese province. They never left China. That’s a really quite important distinction.
@@barrybarry-bb28 I responded to you quoting Mr Hui. We were discussing Mr Hui’s position. You appear to have forgotten that and forgotten what Mr Hui said. Mr. Hui, "...isn't the dream of regaining the mainland really just a pipe dream...?" Mr. Hui responded with, "...it's no dream. It's very real... the Chinese people on the Mainland, they don’t like the life they are leading now…under the … rule of the Communists.” You didn’t say anything about Communists; true. Mr Hui did.
On a new topic; nomenclature: You - “Taiwan is, as I'm sure you are aware, referred to as the Republic of China.” Internationally that term is accepted almost nowhere. And not even the Taiwan authorities’ passport office describes the people there as “Taiwanese”.
On what the question is: You - “However, the question is what do a majority of the Taiwanese people have to say about that?” That’s one question and an important one. But another even more important question is what do a majority of all China’s people have to say about that, not just China’s people in Taiwan but every other province too.
@@sunnywintermorning1941 - Here are the facts. NOTE: there is nothing listed herein that you can logically dispute. These are the facts. Do with them what you will:
Fact One. Since 1949 Taiwan has it's own President, Vice President, Legislature, Constitution, Currency, Military and Flag. It is recognized by the Vatican as well as some twelve United Nations member states. I'll admit that's not an impressive number but at the end of the day it's what the Taiwanese people want for themselves. And it has never been more clear to the world what a majority of the Taiwanese people want for themselves.
Fact Two. You mentioned that the "Taiwanese authorities' passport office" doesn't describe the people of Taiwan as Taiwanese. Well guess what!? The Taiwanese passport from 2000 to 2020 had both the names Republic of China and Taiwan on the front of it. However, since January of 2021 the new biometric passport has only the name Taiwan on it. The Taiwanese people have made it quite clear that they did not want to be confused with mainlanders. And in spite of the fact that most countries do not maintain official diplomatic relations with Taiwan, that Taiwanese passport is accepted around the world, including of course the smaller islands that are near to Taiwan itself, such as: Matsu, Kimen, and Penghu counties. The Taiwanese passport is not recognized by China of course. But so what! Ask the Taiwanese people if they care!
Fact Three. Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists lost to Mao Tse-Tung and the Communists during the Chinese Civil War in the 1940's. They retreated to the island of Taiwan (formerly called Formosa) and set up their Kuomintang government there. They dreamed and fantasized of regaining control over the mainland but that dream never became a reality. They lost. Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist cronies lost to Mao and his Communist cronies just like Robert E. Lee and his Confederates lost to Ulysses S. Grant and his Union Army during the American Civil War in the 1860's. For years after the war, many of the stubborn members of the old Confederate establishment dreamed and fantasized about regaining political control over the South. The South shall rise again was their slogan. Their dreams died with them.
Chiang Kai-shek, James Hui and the Nationalists' dream of regaining political control over mainland China died with them also.
Sigh, one of the greatest and most frequently misunderstood heroes of the past century, I know he made mistakes, lots of them, but given China's horrible situation, there could have been much worse leaders. Even the most anti-Chiang people would admit that he killed far fewer than Mao; even Western sources note that his killings of 20-30,000 Taiwanese civilians in his efforts to contain Communist espionage, is far less than Mao's 40-80 million deaths in mainland China during that same period.
At least he helped America and the Allies win the Second World War against the Germans and Japanese, and at least he helped safeguard and modernize Taiwan, which allowed Chiang's son to transform it into the great democratic superpower that it is today. His legacy lives on in two highly successful states, one non-democratic and one democratic - both China and Taiwan - and that is what makes him one of the most unique and most controversial and complicated leaders in modern history. *I personally choose to believe he was a better person than most imagine. Rest in peace, Generalissimo Chiang, knowing that your noble sacrifices will be remembered.* :)
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He never even tried to accept the peasants which were Chinas most numerous group...Mao atleast pretended to and that aided the Communist mightily.
The moral values he wrote and insisted on his citizens are what made Taiwan successful today. Additionally, during the 1949 and early 50s migration to China, every educator, scientist, engineer, wealthy businessman, royal descendant sided with him instead of Mao. This also contributes the wealth and technology development of Taiwan today. I am not surprised the descendants of Tang, Song and Ming dynasty are in Taiwan instead of China today
@Chang JungChia The monuments of those dynasties are the treasures inside the National Museum and Taipei 101 that brought by the KMT. The descendants... who knows where? As for Chiang, no doubt he is a dictator and when you are in power for so long, you are going to have rivals and conflicts. My point is.. without the migration of ROC to Taiwan and his principles, the island would not be as successful as it is today. Don't even tell me the Hokkiens and indigenous people alone could turn Taiwan into developed country. Additionally, without ROC present, PRC would have easily taken the island anyway after 1949 just like how they took over TIbet and Xinjiang.. Taiwan would have either fall under PRC or stay as an independent country with a GDP no more than the average SEA country
@lati long Spain ruled the Netherlands from 1556 AD to 1714 AD, that's 158 years.
@lati long you literally wrote a short essay. I simply replied to you stating the specific year the Spanish first started and finished their rule over Netherland. I did not state anything else.
I never said I agreed or disagreed with anyone. Just simply the fact that 158 years is how long Spain had rule over Netherland. Other than that I have absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the conversation.
will you release the interview with deng xiaoping？
My friend Brad Kuo used to tell me stories of his father boiling one egg in the street for lunch. I didn't believe that story, but now I guess I can see it.
In the end, Taiwan became a free and democratic country. I hope it stays that way.
It's none of your business
@@chinaiscoming1017 When China is coming to steal territory in my country, it becomes my business. I am simply watching how China behaves in Taiwan. I think it is you to whom I should say, Leave us alone!
@@chinaiscoming1017 none of your business, too😂 by Taiwanese
@@chinaiscoming1017 Your business is to kneel down before Communists.
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How about china?
Chiang Kai-shek died 4 years later and The United States of America abended Chiang's son 8 years later!
The same year Taiwan was forced to leave the United Nations. The US already said good-bye to Taiwan.
@@alicedykeman1526 Are you sure Taiwan was forced to leave the United Nations? Didn't Nixson tell Chiang Kai-shek to go for independence and Chiang refused?
Yes but Chiang Kuo (Chiang's son) manage to reform Taiwan and make it one of the most developed country in Asia
where can i find the original sound interview?
Calling Chiang Kai-shek Taiwanese is the ultimate irony. Taiwanese independence movement was one of the three most harshly prosecuted political activities during his - and his son’s long tenure of terror on the island - along with anti-Kuomintang movements and communism. Having lost Mainland China, the man had all the legitimacy of his rule in Taiwan at stake of his regime’s claim on all of China. Should they admit they’re really ruling over just a small rock, Chiang will meet his reckoning in no time.
Shows how little current western audience really know about history of Taiwan. Oh well, like people really bother to care.
Chiang Kai-shek was no different from the warlords of his time! He was a dictator and his regime was rife with corruption.
His wife Madam Song keeps going to US for more 'aids' and many of these aids ended in the pockets of his commanders! US were sick of her never ending asking for money that she was given a nickname 'Madam US dollars' meaning that she never stop asking for more money from the US.
This is why he lost China to the communist! Had he been a slightly better leader, he would not have lost China to Mao's CCP. It was the same for both the Korean war and the Vietnam war that the regimes supported by the US were so hopelessly corrupted that the peasants not knowing what is communism turned to the communist when the communists promised the peasants that they will be given redistributed free land if the communists wins the war.
Cannot agree more. It reminds me the ancient Chinese history Three Kingdoms. Liu Beijing's legitimacy of ruling Szechuan is out of his sovergnity claim of the whole China.
You're right, nobody cares because the so called "movements" were insignificant, meaningless and outright ludicrous. Curiously, now that he and his "harsh persecutions" are no more for decades, why hasn't your "independence" come to pass ?! Contrary to your opinion, most people had the most favorable memory during their tenure. Only the ones bent on undermining the national security would meet their "terror".
@@tihao3216 Well, seriously I don't get why people hate Chiang so much...as flawed and dictatorial as he was, I think his intentions were not so bad at first. So yes, Chiang killed several thousand Taiwanese people, that is indeed wrong. But at least he killed far, FAR fewer people than Mao! And without him, Taiwan would today be a PRC province... :(
@@ArnoldTeras I think just a perspective different, the hater is mostly hardcore either pro Mao (which a tiny minority in China today), and hardcore Democratic party politician. The average Chinese and Taiwan doesn't view him badly. Taiwanese probably in favor of his son thought.
If only Chiang Kai-shek's prescient concerns had been better heeded. The US and Europe might not have been so quick to grant such one-sided trade policies (that so favored China).
Yes. How ironic when you see this video today.
it is credibly silly that people believe China could be contain, the one that open the door to China isn't EU or US, it was Japan. US had to trade with China because otherwise the Japanese will dominate the Chinese market which is huge. US did this to contain Japan. the west need to stop being so high on itself, not everything is the result of their action. alot of time it was other countries that made the choice. as to why Japan is willing to open to China, doing so was the only way Japan could be the 2nd largest economy for so long. I am impress with Japan, they managed to play the US.
"If only we had listened to the fascist dictator!"
Matheus, why am I not surprised that you are a neo-fascist Bolsonaro supporter (supporting Putin's war against Ukraine). We can only hope that da Silva wins on Oct 31and that rule-of-law and freedom-of-the-press matter once again in Brazil.
@@matheusvillela9150 That doesn't negate him being correct. Instead an authoritarian nuclear state was elevated - enjoy.
totally wrong.
The war during 1946-1949 was definitely not a "struggle for power between two ruthless men".
After the war, China lost 1/10 of its territory to Mao's "top boss" Stalin ("top boss" was quoted from Mao).
From the result of the war, it is clear that it is a war between China and the Soviets and their stooges, not "for power between two men".
The CCP was created as a lackey organization by Lenin who occupied 1/10 of China's territory Mongolia and Tova eliminating its Han Chinese population (15% of its total).
Here is Truman's "China Policy": "China was simply too weak and too poor to justify a major commitment of American resources. In Asia, Japan, with a tenth China’s population and territory but far more industrial potential, held the key to regional control.--so, China was defeated by the Soviet Union and its stooges (rf. Michael Schaller's book).
this is simply not true. The CCP was never Stalin's stooge. I understand where you are coming from, about certain concessions that the CCP granted to Stalin, but to say that the CCP is just Stalin's stooge is just wrong lmao. Mao and Stalin always had a tense relationship and both sides greatly distrusted each other until when the PRC decided to get involved in the Korean War.
@@wingedhussars5576 The CCP was created by Soviet Russia.
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@@wingedhussars5576 what you stated is so untrue, Mao and Stalin conspired to over thrown Koumingtang Republic of China...Mao followed the foot step of Stalin, and Mao wanted all of China under Marxism-Leninism rule. The only disagreement with stalin and Mao is when stalin said no Civil War between the Koumingtang and the CCP when spilt China south and North, but Mao wanted all of China. Stalin aided Mao to take China from Koumingtang party the official government of China then...
Total fertility rate in Taiwan province when this was first broadcast in 1971: 3.963.
Today fertility rate in Taiwan in 2023: 1.236.
War or peace, the future looks rocky.
All those memories🎉thank you provided
I really want to show this documentary to anyone who believes that Taiwan isn't china, i mean look 10:08 they are teached Chinese history and the journalist (whom i disagree with on many many topics) keeps mentioning that the people of Taiwan are Chinese in fact to him they are attached to thier Chinese culture and history more than thier counterparts on the mainland !
One Nation, One Country, One China.
I respect this man very much
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Ahh back then when Taiwan are still governed by Chinese patriots
these people lived through two generations of titanic struggles, you can see the hardness on their faces which are missing today.
Still questionable why he used Japanese from the Nanking Massacre for his army. Same goes for Mao. I just can’t comprehend why Chinese lost millions of people every decade in those times.
Fascists*
Exactly. Now Taiwan is ruled by Japanese worshiper. I'm not even Chinese or Taiwanese, but i can see DPP really wants to sell Taiwan to Japan.