Thomas_More
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But this makes them as impervious to genuine amity as it does to genuine enmity.
As Voltaire says, crooks have accomplices, not friends. So I suppose it boils down to the definition of “buddy.”
In any case, Chiang and Mao were definitely on each other’s death list.
And please note, Movimiento, that we both have the same understanding of socialism, and I am quite well-read, starting from childhood.
They made a reluctant alliance in 1936. The arbiter of that alliance, Chang Hsueh-liang, was punished with lifelong house arrest on Taiwan.
Why take Hoxha, himself a tyrant, as an authority?
No, I don’t think Chiang and Mao were “buddies” at all. Both came from the Kuomintang, of course. It was with reluctance that Chiang, after being kidnapped, agreed to a united front in 1936.
Since we are in TS’s mind so little and pathetic, isn’t it bizarre that, all the way from Japan (where he tells us he is) he expends daily so much time and energy here, on us?
It’s paradoxical that the party of Chiang Kai-shek is the one mainland China wants to stay in power in Taiwan, to keep the 70-year old status quo. The Taiwan issue has flared because the Kuomintang lost the last election.
Ironic also that the independantista president (DPP) of Taiwan is still using the flag of the Republic of China (KMT).
Electronic conscription.
https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-moves-to-introduce-electronic-military-draft-/7045957.html
I always said that, paradoxically, China and the KMT were allies, because, as long as Taiwan is the Republic of China, it cannot go for independence.
