Earlier this month, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Doug Wickert summoned nearby civic leaders to Edwards Air Force Base in California to warn them that if China attacks Taiwan in the coming years, they should be prepared for their immediate region to suffer potentially massive disruption from the very start.
In a remarkable briefing shared by the base on social media and promoted in a press release, Wickert - one of America’s most experienced test pilots now commanding the 412th Test Wing - outlined China’s rapid military growth and preparations to fight a major war.
Cutting-edge U.S. aircraft manufactured in California’s nearby “Aerospace Valley”, particularly the B-21 “Raider” now replacing the 1990s B-2 stealth bomber, were key to keeping Beijing deterred, he said. However, if deterrence failed that meant China’s would likely strike the U.S. including nearby Northrop Grumman factories where those planes were built.
Oh, did The Union come close to having a brutal military dictatorship after the civil war like Taiwan had? Why would you put The Union as being closer to Chiang Kai-Shek? Were they the more Capitalistic ones?
No, because the Union utterly demolished the Confederates.
We can only guess whether the union would have become and remained a military dictatorship for 25 years if they had lost and fled to Hawai. That’s speculation.
After all, the ROC wasn’t a military dictatorship prior to the civil war either.
I think they were… They did a bunch of massacres and political repression didn’t they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_massacre
Wasn’t that part of the betrayal that started China’s civil war? Says there they killed hundreds of thousands of Communist supporters and unionists, turned women into prostitutes… And that KMT party members denounced Chiang Kai Shek (who became leader of the RoC dictatorship) to Sun-Yat Sen, the pro-democracy candidate.
Pretty sure the RoC factions of the KMT sucked pretty bad… Then later the communists sucked less than them.
The violent Chinese nationalists weren’t the good guys. Western nations supported the subsequent military dictatorship in Taiwan because it was pro-Capitalist, anti-communist (and also anti-democracy).
It was only when Chiang Kai Shek died in the 1970s that the pro-democracy movement in Taiwan felt they could start properly without getting killed.