Taiwan’s Chiang Kai-shek (1971) | 60 Minutes Archive

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viewed on 28 december 23

A superb report, totally unlike today's US reporting which is designed for instant effect rather than deep thought. The huge irony is the fact that mainland China is now a huge Taiwan, albeit with a slightly less authoritarian regime.

Sorry, But There Is Another Side To Chiang.
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Do Your Own Research.
He Obviously Was The Far Lesser Of 2 Evils.

In WW2, Chiang Was Wrong To Rebuff
General Stillwell's Good Idea To Get Chiang
And Mao To Fight The Japanese Together,
But Chiang Fought Stilwell, And Sent Stilwell Back To America.
Only China 🇨🇳 Dedicated a Museum In General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Honor For What He Did Fighting Off The Japanese.

One of the greatest mistakes and probably history will show it to be the greatest mistake was the US recognition of the CCP.

Imagine if Chiang didn’t lose China to the communists. Hundreds of thousands of Americans soldiers lives could have been saved from Korean War and Vietnam War. Because Red China sponsored all the communist wars in 20th century

It is refresh to watch the history and is amazing to see the history is repeating itself at this moment.

The problem is, the anchor's visit in Communist China was carefully scripted and staged in the most secret manner. His visit in Taiwan was more organic and liberal - even the staged part was announced as such. Communism fundamentally altered Chinese culture in the Mainland, the result would be prominent in the generations born within communism.

The anchor also completely misjudged Chang's "consistency". He came to prominence in Sun Yat-sen's military by supporting the latter's collusion with Chinese Communist Party in the Northern Expedition against the constitutional Beiyang Government of China.

history of the best dictator in China

精神不滅

This archive is so powerful~wow!!!

RIP
Chiang Kai-shek
(1887-1975)

chiang kai shrek

I know the interviewer is trying to be as neutral and objective as possible, but saying Communist China and the Republic of China are alike is laughable. When this was filmed, which is 1971, mainland was literally undergoing the infamous political movement & purging started by no other than dictator Mao himself -- the Cultural Revolution. It caused the death of millions of Chinese in 10 years. Meanwhile in Taiwan on the other hand, is experiencing rapid economic growth under KMT leadership, society is prosperous and people are enjoying a much more stable life than their mainland counterpart. So although Chiang and KMT's rule was authoritarian, people still enjoyed limited civil liberties and the fruits of a capitalist economy. It's absolutely fair to say the Republic of China under President Chiang was doing way better than so-called People's Republic of China under ruthless dictator Mao. Mao killed around 80 million Chinese, which is more than the combination of the people Stalin and Hitler killed, let that sink in.

Long life RPC.

He was no democratic leader.

Glory to Chiang Kai-shek! Glory to Republic Of China! 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼

Democratic china ? Jang and mao? They were just dictators.

Mao outlived him by just over a year. So Mao won that one as well.

chiangkaishek mansai，chongma llc manmansai！

Hero

The democratic China that Chiang Kai-shek hoped for will not be realized. It is difficult for the Chinese to eradicate the servile gene. What they need is an emperor who can be worshipped. Taiwan needs the support of the West to help the Taiwanese break away from Chinese imperialism. If Western countries have negative views on China, I believe it is obvious now that any illusions about political reform will only hurt ourselves in the end.

It astonished me seeing how certain Chiang was that he would reconquer the mainland. That is implausible today. Regardless of whether the current government of Taiwan calls itself the Republic of China or Taiwan, I hope residents of Taiwan will remain free and able to express opinions and choose their political leaders and not fall under the repressive thumb of the CCP as Hong Kong has after the UK gave it to the PRC.

"Be polite", "dont beat your wife", a bit different to consume, consume, ... Get credit,.. and consume some more. ( im just a tainted product of my time, pay no mind).

Rip chiang kai shek

There, this wise man had warned the US right then and there 50 years ago that despite their smiling campaign, the communists will not change. And it took the Americans 50 years to finally come to terms with this reality. The reporter was arrogant and highly biased in his interpretations of something he didn’t fully understand. The sheer murdering of hundreds of millions of Chinese by starvation and persecution in Mao’s regime alone would make equating the two Chinas under different leaderships simply because they still both pretty much look like Chinese laughable. As Chiang put it at the end, loyalty and faithfulness are the principles and trust for friendship, yet in history the US had unfathomably repeatedly betrayed and exploited Chiang’s China in favor of the communists whom the US itself had aimed to eliminate in its own county ?!

My word, this superb piece of television journalism is almost exactly as old as I am ( sigh ). Isn’t it stunning, almost, to hear someone referring to the late 1940s as being some twenty years ago, too ! The slogans on the banners, marvelous ! Here in Japan we definitely need banners slung up demanding that people n o t spit on the pavements, urinate in public in broad daylight, and smoke almost anywhere they please.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan are fundamentally different. The ROC represents authentic Chinese culture and does not hide behind facades. The CCP should never be associated with the ROC Taiwan in the same sentences. Mao won by spy craft and deception, nothing to be proud of

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Basically a less nepotistic South Vietnam

Wow

That man was a hero.

Henry Kissinger: "it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."

蔣介石記錄的中共13條罪行

一、中共罪惡：
（甲）盜抗戰之名義，而行破壞抗戰之事實。
（乙）借民主之美名，而施階級獨裁之陰謀。
（丙）違反四項諾言之事實與經過，欺民欺世，忘信背義，莫此為甚。
（丁）藉民選之名義，以行其擁兵作亂，割據地盤，奴辱民眾，破壞統一之實。
（戊）破壞外交政策，捕殺盟軍官兵，阻礙盟軍行動，破壞國軍反攻計劃，詆毀英、美參戰為帝國主義之戰爭，不僅反對政府聯合英、美作戰，且使政府孤立無援，排除與國，為中共一貫之策略。
（己）勾結敵軍，通同漢奸，傾害國本，顛覆政府，以組織聯合政府為過渡手段，而達到其多數控制，成立其第四共产国际专政之目的。
（庚）企圖割據華北各省，盤據熱察，擴大叛亂，以期擾亂東亞，妨礙世界和平之建立。
（辛）促使新四軍之叛變，擅設軍事委員會，以此名義，劫持第十八集團軍，反抗軍令，毅然以共產紅軍自稱，公開叛變。 （壬）擅設延安所謂「陝甘寧邊區政府」，割據地盤，反對中央政令，私發鈔票，擅征租稅，強種鴉片，私設關卡，與敵偽公開貿易，交換貨物，以接濟敵軍，助長侵略，此即中共之所謂對日抗戰也。
（癸）跡其宣傳，直接攻訐政府，誣蔑盟軍，間接協助敵偽，毀滅國本，必使中華民國變成為第四共產國際而後已。

二、共軍所到地區，所謂民選政府之實情： （甲）信仰、言論、行動，皆絕對統制而無自由，否則即以反動漢奸與叛徒之罪，加以捕殺，傳教師絕對不能傳教，且不准進入其竊據地區。
（乙）人民之納租出捐，抽丁派糧，不惟因戰後而不奉令停止，且變本加厲，各種苛捐雜稅，層出不窮，民不聊生。
（丙）抗戰期間，到處煽動人民對政府抗役，且借各種神道邪教，愚惑民眾，以圖危害國家，破壞抗戰之事實，因略舉要點述之。
作者： 蔣介石

Chiang Kai -Shek is a military dictator, he had martial law in Taiwan for several decades until President Lee Teng-Hui, then only democratization began to be practiced inside the island until today.

This is the one of the most corrupted guy in history n he basically took all the gold away to Taiwan after losing the China civil war

And what of 228?

很辛苦的年代！軍民一心面對萬難！

Total fertility rate in Taiwan province when this was first broadcast in 1971: 3.963.
Today fertility rate in Taiwan in 2023: 1.236.
War or peace, the future looks rocky.

Back then when US policy towards China makes sense.

US media to the rescue.

Chiang answer was profound... He hoped that America will see the long term challenge that communist China will pose but Americans were short sighted and more focused to destroy Soviets... America in 2022 made the same mistake.

No matter why the International Olympic Committee called the delegation "Chinese Taipei". Very few Olympians come from ROC/TPE. SUMMER: First medalist from ROC/TPE: Yang Chuan-kwang (as Formosa/RCF) (Rome 1960, Athletics, Men's Decathlon, Silver); First female medalist, Chi Cheng (as TWN) (Mexico City 1968, Athletics, Women's 80-Meter Hurdles, Bronze); First Gold Medal: Chen Shih-hsin (Athens 2004, Taekwondo, Women's Flyweight) and Chu Mu-yen (Athens 2004, Taekwondo, Men's Flyweight). Of the 72 total athletes in the WINTER Olympic Games from ROC/TPE, none have earned a medal. They were first delegated at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Multiple Gold Medalist: Hsu Shu-ching (London 2012 and Rio 2016, both Women's 53 kg Weightlifting)

Logistic prose

When you spend 8 years defending china from a foreing aggressor just to be betrayed by your fellow countrymen afterwards, makes sense why he never gave up on reclaiming the mainland. It was the Rebuplic of China that sacrificed millions of men to defend china, while the communists waited out the conflict just to strike at a weakened Enemy.