Hakka general - Huang Tao

["Dixie" <Dixie@singnet.com.sg>]

Subject:      Taiwan Armed Forces? (Was: One China Under Way?) 
From:         gui@cs.concordia.ca (Gui) 
Date:         1997/11/19 
Message-ID:   <64v0d0$28l$1@newsflash.concordia.ca> 
Newsgroups:   
talk.politics.tibet,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,talk.politics.china

[More Headers] 
 
 
        When did I say "Taiwan armed forces"?  Where? 
 
        If there had existed something known as "Taiwan armed forces" 
        in Taiwan today,  no one would have care even if they had called 
        themselves Taiwan Jun, which was, of course, the name of the huge  
        body of Nipponese troops later disarmed and expelled from in 1945  
        by the ROC armed forces commanded by the Cantonese Hakka general  
        Huang Tao. Some Taiwan, some armed forces.   
 
        General Huang disarmed the Nipponese troops in northern  
        Vietnam and moved on to do the same in Taiwan on 10/25/1945.  
        The English rushed to southern Vietnam and Indonesia.  But  
        they did not disarm the Nipponese in either place.  They  
        just used them to fight the local nationalists and hold out 
        until the Dutch and the French colonialists could return.   
        Despicable.  But undoubtedly defensible according to the likes  
        of Glenys.  English nationalists are a sorry bunch. 
        
        I saw a picture in a fairly new book co-authored by Jonathan 
        D. Spence and Annping Chin, _The Chinese Century_ which 
        should be circulated in Taiwan so that more school kids 
        can be impressed with it.  
 
        For it shows two rows of half-naked Nipponese lined up in  
        front of two Chinese officers.  The caption is: 
  
                Some of the million or so surrendered Japanese 
                troops are given a final health check by the 
                Guomindang before going home at the end of  
                World War II. 
 
        It would mightily annoy the Taiwan Separatists, and perhaps  
        make foreign pro-Separatist liars like Mike Tortoni pause 
        before spreading more lies about the ownership of Taiwan. 
       
         
        Glossary 
          
        Huang Tao			~{;FLN~} 
	Taiwan  Jun			~{L(Me>|~}