Taiwan

Taiwan   (Country)
Location	Asia, Pacific Ocean
Leader	President of Taiwan
Type	nation state
Interest of	Tom Cotton, Martin Edmonds, House and Senate Taiwan Caucus
Member of	APEC
A large island of mainland China. De facto independent despite claiming to be the legitimate government over all of China.

Not to be confused with the much bigger People's Republic of China.

Taiwan is an island in the Pacific Ocean. Traditionally a part of China, it was controlled by Japan in the period 1895-1945, when the island saw a large scale modernization. After WW2, the island was given back to the Republic of China (Koumintang under Chiang Kai-shek. But China was in the middle of a civil war, and the communists Peoples Republic of China soon seized control over the mainland. The Republic of China evacuated to Taiwan, and has stayed there since, protected by US naval dominance.

Deep State

The Koumintang party and government was in large parts dominated by organized crime. Chiang Kai-shek was himself a front man for the Shanghai Green Gang opium syndicate.

“CIA reports from 1952, and published in 2007, give additional confirmation that Kodama and some of his associates had been recruited by Army G-2 in order to help the United States fight communism. Kodama's group sent spies to surrounding communist countries and delivered mercenaries to Chiang Kai-shek's regime in Taiwan. In the documents the CIA also claims that the group was primarily working for themselves and were a great danger to the democratic process in Japan. [47] Unsurprisingly, MacArthur was a great supporter of Chiang Kai-shek on Taiwan, in contrast to President Truman and the State Department. Reportedly, MacArthur, as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan, was asked to help put together a plan to remove Kai-shek - but he refused”
JVDH (2014) 

After moving to the island, it soon became a nest for illicit activities.

• After the civil war, the Kuomintang remnant forces in the Golden Triangle soon took over and massively expanded the opium trade in the area.

• US aid during WW2 and the civil war was siphoned off by KMT leaders, creating gigantic fortunes.

• The CIA station in Taipei became one of the Agency's biggest and most important bases in Asia, supporting drug smuggling networks, with front organisations like the CAT and Air America airlines based on the island.
• The China lobby in the US was (and still is) an extremely strong political network furthering ROC interests, only comparable in strength to the Israel lobby. People like Henry Luce and Clare Booth Luce strongly dominated the public discourse on China matters.

• The ROC was the main sponsor of the World Anti-Communist League, an umbrella organization of extreme right wing groups. The WACL was allowed military training on the island at the Political Warfare Cadres Academy, where it trained torture and counter insurgency to officers around the world, including many from Latin America.

• The island was and still is a safe haven for South-East Asian organized crime, especially for laundering money and gold, aided by KMT or KMT-aligned gangster-legislators.

2020 developments

China, from the standpoint of its One China Principle, has argued since the early 90s that it will not tolerate an independent Taiwan. The website of the Chinese military on August the 5th, 2020 released an article which reads in part:

Z-10 attack helicopters attached to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Army recently conducted a series of sea-crossing assault drills on a Navy warship. The combination of Army helicopters and Navy warships can significantly boost the PLA's amphibious, vertical landing capability and will play a vital role in potential military operations on the island of Taiwan,

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Kim Beazley	“In the event of a war between the United States and China, Australia would have absolutely no alternative but to line up militarily beside the US. Otherwise the alliance would be effectively dead and buried, something that Australia could never afford to see happen.””	Kim Beazley	2006
Peter Dutton	““It would be inconceivable that we wouldn’t support the US in an action if the US chose to take that action...maybe there are circumstances where we wouldn’t take up that option, (but) I can’t conceive of those circumstances.””	Peter Dutton	13 November 2021

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Asus	2 April 1989	The world's 5th-largest PC vendor by unit sales
Kuomintang
Political Warfare Cadres Academy	15 July 1951	CIA-supervised Taiwanese military academy known for its training in torture, especially to Latin-American police, military and intelligence forces.

 

A citizen of Taiwan on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died
Chiang Kai-shek	31 October 1887	5 April 1975

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Integrity Initiative Weekly Report 16th to 22nd July 2018	report	22 July 2018	Euan Grant	input into media documentaries and fictional entertainment, including specific topics

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