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The Xi’an Incident changed the course of Chinese history.
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December 28, 2020
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Two generals and their men kidnap their leader and force him into an alliance with his sworn enemy in order to fight an even greater enemy. This is not the plot of an action movie – although an award-winning film about the event did come out in 1981. This is the true story of the Xi’an Incident, which took place from December 12, 1936 until Christmas Day.
In 1936, the Communists and Nationalists were at war. At the same time, however, the Japanese had already begun their invasion of China. Manchuria in northeast China fell to Japan in 1931 and a Japanese puppet state – Manchukuo – was established the following year. And, yet, the Republic of China’s Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, was solely focused not on the external threat of encroaching Japanese troops, but on the domestic threats to his own personal leadership. In a telling example of how little attention Chiang wa
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Months after eliminating a popular challenge to its rule in Hong Kong, China is turning to an even higher-stakes target: self-governing Taiwan. The island has been bracing for conflict with China for decades, and in some respects, that battle has now begun.
FILE PHOTO: Hong Kong anti-government protesters attend a rally in support of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen outside the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan January 11, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo
It’s not the final, titanic clash that Taiwan has long feared, with Chinese troops storming the beaches. Instead, the People’s Liberation Army, China’s two-million-strong military, has launched a form of “gray zone” warfare. In this irregular type of conflict, which stops short of an actual shooting war, the aim is to subdue the foe through exhaustion.