Taiwan stands up to China with World War II military parade

[TexasTowelie]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan marched out thousands of troops and displayed its most modern military hardware Saturday to spotlight an old but often forgotten claim that its forces, not the Chinese Communists, led the campaign that routed imperial Japan from China 70 years ago.

The military staged an unusually large two-hour parade of homegrown missiles, Apache attack helicopters and a mountain bike team designed for stealth missions, followed by awards for aged World War II veterans in their attire from the 1940s.

China and Taiwan split during civil war in 1949 and today's China — more militarily and economically powerful than Taiwan — claims that the Chinese Communists had directed the resistance against the Japanese. Mainland officials have argued that the Communists' advice and fighting skills were crucial to the victory.

Taiwan's Nationalist Party ruled all of China when Japan invaded parts of the country from 1931, forming a central stage of the Asian World War II theater. In one attack, the Japanese massacred between 40,000 and 300,000 Chinese in what has become known as the Nanjing Massacre.

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[delrem]

1. It doesn't mean anything.

What means something is that Mao kicked out the European free-ports, those colonialist enterprises run by colonialist countries.
It had to be done.
The Brits still had their Island colony.

The ruling class on that Island colony hadn't done a very good job for China, when they were in power - and now they ruled their Island at Her Majesty the Queen of England's sufferance.
In the thousands of years of China's history, their governance was the nadir.

China now had to fend for itself outside of and ostracised from the American/European economy, in a condition that was totally undeveloped and totally the product of neglect.

For all its faults, China is now/soon the #1 economy in the world.
That happened quickly, considering the size of the engine.
The Chinese invented the concept of "state capitalism" decades ago, whereas most Americans still associate China with a nebulous hate-word 'communism', think its economy has something to with "Marx", and beyond those insights don't have a clue.