zzs8mm 说:
Guys...
Why are we arguing about the history of China during the civil war period and write huge essays about it? The communists won the war and we have to believe in their history now on. They won and they get to change it to whatever they like. Even school textbooks (well in Texas) and other sources favors the communists and make KMT the evil ones. Oh well, they are no.2 economy in the world. They created a 5th generation jet. what else, they will probably get a man on the moon next.
The end.
I read somewhere in this thread that the Chinese communists adored the Americans... they only did so to make them believe they were better than the KMT and so they can win the Americans over. But then again, the US government was filled with commitern spies and the US gave up on the KMT in 1947 (because of those spies).
Kind of funny, the USSR actually supported the KMT, but they had to support their communist brothers in the end, well because they were communists. The Soviets never really trusted their Chinese brothers. Eventually Mao's ideas conflicted with Moscow's to the point where there is the Sino-Soviet split. The US tried to win over China in 1971. Now we have cheap labor to make our stuff for us. Yay for communist China. Of course they refuse to buy stuff from us. Opps we screwed ourselves there.
I don't get why people support "communist" goverments. Look at N.Korea, Cuba, China, etc. The people help to support the "revolution" in turn the people get screwed in the end because now the government can put down people and blow their brains out for the heck of it. Well I am still waiting for the US government to lift the embargo and we can get the Cubans to work. At least I see the positive thing about "Communist" governments, cheap labor. N.Korea, you should start to encourage more investments into your country, China can't be cheap forever. At least get more light bulbs put in.
don't think US give up KMT because of spies. US give up KMT because KMT is so terrible and chaotic.
US is a very discriminative countries in nature(past and now).
The first engineer in charge of Boeing was a Chinese, but he got pissed off and joined ROC. Many of the top Chinese scientists got pissed off too, some were arrested and exchanged for Korea war prisoners.
US do not even trust Chinese scientists with their own top edge research.
its still the case today. you may see many Chinese Americans got charged with spies, but you hardly hear the aftermath, since many of them are indeed innocent. Also law enforcement trying to forge spy cases by deception, bribery or force now and then, which is well know in the Chinese community.
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people support "communist" governments simply because the alternative is much much worse, period.
If you are just an ordinary citizen, you will get jobs, free educations, medications, apartment and vacations. This is far better then starving.
Also, 50 years ago, those alternatives aren't democratic either. The human rights records of those alternatives are often far worse than their "communist" counterpart.
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Just give one example of the rights people enjoy in a typical "socialist state". Before China went market economy, the owner of the any state firms
can not fire any of the employees unless he break the law. So if you are a worker, swear at the boss anytime in his face. He would hate you very much, but he can't fire you or withhold your wage.
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As for the Cheap labors, they happens because of the economic state of the country. Illegal immigrants works in the US farms are far more miserable then those "Communist" counterparts who still have more or less state benefits.
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Chinese communists adored the Americans has nothing to do with US support. At the time, party members are far too ideal. .Most CCP members truly believe they can create some thing better. Its one of the reasons CCP rarely have defectors. Just as I said, if you got a chance to dig out the old CCP newspapers, you will be surprised.
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the above stuff are politically incorrect in the west. But still I hope it may address some of your questions.