They definitely helped somebody. Either they helped the good guys, or they had been helping the bad guys all along, and now have been stopped. I'm leaning on the first possibility. It'd make more sense that if "we" (good USA) have been militarily supporting the ROC (Taiwan) for decades, that it'd be for good reasons.
I actually wrote a paper for my History of Modern Asia class during undergrad studies covering the German-Sino cooperation. Got an A on it 😁. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-German_cooperation_(1926%E2%80%931941). Also wrote a paper in my International Studies class arguing that Taiwan was a legitimate government and that China's seat on the UN should never have been replaced by the communists (Nixon... ugh...). Odd how I studied these things years ago in college and now it's helping make sense of the world. Back then even my profs were surprised I'd picked obscure topics to study. Ufortunately my external hard drive with a lot of this stored on it, crapped out. Trying to get that thing recovered... tons of research and work on that thing I'd hate to lose forever.
If you're interested in this topic, this documentary was actually quite informative https://youtu.be/6FHHT_O-Khk
They definitely helped somebody. Either they helped the good guys, or they had been helping the bad guys all along, and now have been stopped. I'm leaning on the first possibility. It'd make more sense that if "we" (good USA) have been militarily supporting the ROC (Taiwan) for decades, that it'd be for good reasons.
I actually wrote a paper for my History of Modern Asia class during undergrad studies covering the German-Sino cooperation. Got an A on it 😁. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-German_cooperation_(1926%E2%80%931941). Also wrote a paper in my International Studies class arguing that Taiwan was a legitimate government and that China's seat on the UN should never have been replaced by the communists (Nixon... ugh...). Odd how I studied these things years ago in college and now it's helping make sense of the world. Back then even my profs were surprised I'd picked obscure topics to study. Ufortunately my external hard drive with a lot of this stored on it, crapped out. Trying to get that thing recovered... tons of research and work on that thing I'd hate to lose forever.
If you're interested in this topic, this documentary was actually quite informative https://youtu.be/6FHHT_O-Khk