Taiwan Question

On October 1st 1949, Mao Tse-tung, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the communist armies proclaimed the People’s Republic of China. It was a hard-fought victory for Mao and the communists, a victory which had come after nearly four years of unbridled civil war. While the civil war itself was considered to have begun in 1945, there had been intermittent fighting between the two participants; the nationalists and the communists; for nearly …

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