Originally Posted by
melmothtw
Taiwan never 'broke out' from communist China. If anything, it was the other way around. The nationanlist Chinese were the legitimate government of China at the time the communists seized power, forcing their withdrawal to Taiwan.
How familiar are you with Chiang and his crew, I wonder? Suggested reading is a book called "The Soong Dynasty." (
ISBN 0-06-091318-5.) Read it years ago.
What went on in China after WW II was a civil war, a political power struggle. One side won, the other side lost. Also consider the book "Formosa Betrayed" to see how that played out across the straits.
Something similar (a civil war, political struggle settled in part by arms) happened in the British Isles in the fifteenth century. Should the descendants of Richard Plantagenet now demand that their house have the crown returned to it?
Wait a sec, a war more recently waged in about 1948, and a few after, established by arms the right of Israel to certain territory. Should they now piss off since they are not the legitimate government of that land?