To understand the contemporary geopolitical significance of the Republic of China, Vijay Prashad says it is necessary to examine Cold War history.
Making Taiwan the Ukraine of the East
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“Stop US interference”: Interview with the Labour Party of Taiwan
No Cold War is pleased to publish the following interview of Wu Rong-yuan, Chairperson of the Labour Party of Taiwan, conducted by Wim De Ceukelaire. The interview has been edited for clarity.
“Stop US interference”: Interview with the Labour Party of Taiwan
Chiang Kai-shek’s Great-Grandson’s Election Win Means Much To Taiwan’s Future
Chiang Kai-shek’s Great-Grandson’s Election Win Means Much To Taiwan’s Future
But there is much more to the win of the young (43) Chiang and his Chinese Nationalist (KMT) Party over the candidate of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. Even before he has taken office at city hall, Chiang is being promoted as the next president of Taiwan when incumbent Tsai Ing-wen must by law step down in 2024.
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Where most of the KMT embrace the “one nation, two systems” policy that opponents fear will lead to Taiwan being absorbed by China, young Chiang in January, 2020 denounced the policy and embraced the stance of President Tsai that China must recognize the independence of Taiwan and the values of freedom and democracy held dear by Taiwanese.
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Chiang-Wan-an’s grandfather, Chiang Ching-kuo, served as Taiwan’s president from 1978 to 1988.* The lawmaker’s father John Chiang is a past vice premier and foreign minister of Taiwan.
*Related (Notes for Myself):
Read More »Spanish riots escalate: free speech crackdown and rapper’s jailing reveal struggle to escape Franco’s legacy
text by Damian Wilson via RT. illustrations added shared with thanks
Millions of Spaniards still remember life under fascism. Now, with lockdown’s limits on freedom compounded by the erosion of free speech under Franco-style laws, as seen by Pablo Hasél’s jailing, a new generation is fighting back.
Spanish riots escalate: free speech crackdown and rapper’s jailing reveal struggle to escape Franco’s legacy
Anti-Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Class Struggle
THE TERROR OF THE WHITE ARMY
THE TERROR OF THE WHITE ARMY
Exhibit 1
White army, black generals: the memoirs of the whites. – Yaroslavl: Verkhnevolzhskoe publishing house, 1991. – 286 p.
K. I. P. B. V. Fedyuk. Civil war: On the other side of the front
“Pages of memories R. B. Gulya full descriptions of executions and cruel executions. The author will not be accused of exaggeration and bias. “The shooting of prisoners of the Bolsheviks, wrote in the reviews of the book ghoul emigre magazine is also true for the first little Volunteer the army was United not only by patriotism, but by hatred Bolshevism, bringing this hatred on all its members” (Military collection. – Belgrade. KN. 1. 1921. – P. 190).
Massacres was not a random incident, but part of a program that made a bet on fear. Kornilov, sending volunteers to fight, said “Captured not to take. The greater the terror, the greater the victory” (S. M. Paul. With Kornilov // White matter. Vol. 3. – Berlin, 1927. – P. 67).
The tone was set by personal involvement in the executions of General Markov the commander of the Kornilov regiment Colonel Mezentsev and other higher officers” (p.11).
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