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Blaming the UK for Mao’s triumph over Chiang Kai-shek is a blunder, alright, but one by the self-styled historian.
The Greatest Blunder in British History « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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The surrender of the Japanese military forces in Formosa was on Oct. 25, 1945, thus beginning the military occupation, and the administrative authority for this military occupation was delegated to Chiang Kai-shek aka the Chinese nationalists or Republic of China.
Archive 2006-03-01 Michael Turton 2006
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So, when George H.W. Bush made a joke about “unleashing Chang” while playing tennis in 1989, he was humorously conflating Chiang Kai-shek and Michael Chang, which Matt and the reporter and were too unsophisticated to get.
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They were, however, later joined by Chinese forces loyal to Chiang Kai-shek.
Elephant Man's heroic rescue mission in 'Far east Dunkirk' revealed on film Stephen Bates 2010
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The ancient country has even had Christian leaders, such as the Congregationalist founder of the Chinese Republic, Sun Yat-sen, and his Methodist successor, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek (head of the Kuomintang for nearly forty years).
"The Prime Minister of China who became a Benedictine Abbot" 2009
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Another interesting point is that, even without the Chiang Kai-shek misunderstanding, what Jeb is doing is super racist.
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Probably Chiang Kai-shek as good as his coach Big-Eared Tu were responsible for setting up a league to manage all a assorted Triad groups called Five Continents Overseas Chinese Hung League.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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It was fine for us children, but a desperately anxious time for our mother: Bereft of her husband incommunicado with Chiang Kai-sheks government in the far west of China, of her father and brother in a Japanese interment camp near Shanghai, and of her own mother in the blitz in London, my mother listened in the kitchen to the BBC news, hearing the Axis extending its reach through the world on an ever-widening front.
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Probably Chiang Kai-shek as good as his coach Big-Eared Tu were responsible for setting up a league to manage all a assorted Triad groups called Five Continents Overseas Chinese Hung League.
Batin Itam: The Li Blood Line admin 2009
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What the heck does the Korean War have to do with Chiang Kai-shek?
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