Complacency at its finest. America was the global Empire, still is. But who would have thought the then Shek led 400 million weak men of the east was remodeled soon after 1946 by the communists and nowadays compete with the United States for global domination. Nobody predicted. https://twitter.com/Dplrblmctnght/status/1292942781049180162

As oppose to the common belief that Shek and Mao were sworn enemies(most China experts don’t get it. I doubt any does), they were actually two fruits on the same tree branch, as both were early revolutionaries whose entanglements dated back for decades before the 1946~1949

Breakup fight of their rendezvous of density that drove Shek to Taiwan. Worlds apart, but not as you thought. Across the straight, both let state media call each other ugly names but they were each other’s little cabbage in their own eyes, whose camaraderie and bromance started

In the Huangpu Military Academy years, when both worked for the same struggle, fought for the same cause, a dream and evisagemenr for a stronger China, that not only will get rid of Colonial Rule but impose its own will on those colonial powers.

With the same final goal and end game, tho their respective detailed plans and road maps differing slightly, Shek and Mao solved their peer competition in a full blown war. “You bottom this time” “No, you bottom, cuz I’m always the top”. This kind of stuff.

As I told you before, Mao had quite some charisma, he never lied for example, he didn’t bother lying. Every time when he had to Publicly denounce the Kuomintang, he never forget to add a end note of How much he loves Shek. “Chiang was a good President.I will never be in the same

Place where Chiang is present. But he was a good president, Better than Hu Shi or anyone the Kuomintang could offer. I’d vote for my old friend Chiang any time” “ Imagine how epically This May trigger our old friend President Chiang in Taiwan, Who must be very unhappy now.

In fact, my friendship with President Chiang is way older than your guys’ with him. We let papers disparage each other daily but I call him President Chiang.” Mao told the visiting POTUS Nixon in his office. “Chiang has consciousness” “Chiang is reighteous and a great patriot”

Those were Mao’s comments on Shek. If this wasn’t love, then what is? In 1974, when the PLA INVADED Vietnam, their warships passed though the Taiwan straight like nobody is around, but with Kuomintang searchlight navigation guidances and tribute. “vincere est vivere”

Previously, Chiang when asked to give an order in his situation room, said: Battle at the Paracel Islands is at a critical stage. If the PLA hasn’t beat up the Viets already, I would. And previously Mao when asked to give orders about a invasion plan, said: go through the

Straight directly to save as much time as possible. Don’t have to ask. It’s Mao’s shit test all along. TFW your boyfriend is on a shit test reality TV show, you are watching live and he didn’t betray you. Shek passsd the test. Till the very end days of the couple, they still

thought and talked about each other like about nobody else. Greatest enemies make the greatest Friends, Vice versa.

Chiang wanted China to become the world’s greatest power, even to surpass and replace Ameria. As did Mao, who respected and admired America very deeply all through his life(TFW Mao Zedong genuinely loved America and was never a hater of America, not for a day, but Antifa and BLM

Are the opposite) It’s really all about Upbringings. Both Mao and Shek were 19th century borns that witnessed the golden age. Imagine being from rural Hunan and Rural Zhejiang, where things were unchanged and hopeless for like 20 millennia. But it’s 19th century already so you

Learned about America. What kind of a deep shock would you be in. Totally mindfucked. With Mao being the more masterful power player of the two, both were very big dreamers and dared to challenge a mission impossible: turning the poorest country into one of the richest and fuck

Over the boss. Yeah, like a revolutio, a complete reversal of existing order. What autistic laughingstocks would even think about that? I would mogged both if I were their contemporary. Thankfully I am not. Or I would be super harsh on them and look very stupid today.

Chiang was a half baked Chinese Nationalist that wanted the desired result but didn’t understand how to. Both received Soviet Funding and aides and neither cared about freedom or democracy. Mao was a brilliant and better qualified political predator than Shek ever was and could

be, who understood all along that China through totalitarian communism is the only viable way and form China could exist in. You either go full commie or don’t have China at all. Chiang was like a whale with legs in the ocean, which did exist for a short while as an intermediat

Transitioning form but went extinct as soon as true whales appeared. Mao to Shek be like: hey bro, what are those, are those fucking legs on you? Shek: Yes, all land mammals have legs. We will not qualify as mammals if we don’t have them. Mao: what are they for? Chiang: walking

Mao: we don’t walk you silly.