Ep. 319 | The History of Taiwan (Part 10)
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The first five years of the 1950s were ones to remember. The Korean War, the Cold War, The First Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, Formosa Resolution Act, Tuapse Incident, May 24th Incident, the MAAG, the USTDC, and all these other acronyms that surrounded the US-Taiwan alliance. Buckle your seatbelts and sit back for the next forty minutes. If you think tensions in today's whacky world are outta sight, get a load of what was going on off the coast of the People's Republic of China during the immediate years following Liberation on the Mainland.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings once again, dear CHP listeners. |
| 0:02.8 | Los Le Montgomery here with you once again, |
| 0:05.1 | bringing you the 10th episode in a series |
| 0:08.5 | where we're given the history of Taiwan a nice once over. |
| 0:12.5 | We've made it to the 1950s, |
| 0:14.5 | but there's still quite a ways to go yet. |
| 0:16.7 | I might have to spin this series off |
| 0:18.8 | into a whole new podcast show. |
| 0:21.2 | Last time we convened, we got as far as 1950 |
| 0:24.6 | and the commencement of the Korean War. |
| 0:28.0 | Joseph Stalin, he didn't live long enough |
| 0:30.9 | to see all the damage he did to the United States |
| 0:33.4 | and to US PRC relations. |
| 0:36.0 | But with the Korean War and the whole sorry aftermath, |
| 0:40.2 | he sure made a fine mess of things for the Yanks. |
| 0:43.4 | We know of course that relations got all patched up, |
| 0:45.8 | but during the 1950s and into the 1960s, |
| 0:50.2 | the battle drums between the PRC, ROC and USA |
| 0:55.2 | would always be audible. |
| 0:57.3 | Following the end of World War II, |
| 0:59.4 | our frenemy, the Soviet Union, |
| 1:02.0 | and their enthusiasm to make the world safe from capitalism |
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