The 21st century obsession of Chinese empire building
Dated 11/8/2005
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China's drive to be an imperialist nation started in 1949, when it has occupied by force Tibet and Eastern Turkistan. Later, after a few years, it absorbed Manchuria and Mongolia as gifts from Stalin. However, that has not stopped the appetite of China.
In 1962, China invaded India. China occupies about 10 per cent of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. In 1964, China invaded the USSR, in 1979 Vietnam. It has already taken over the Spartley Island, a potentially rich island with petroleum and natural gas, which belongs to Vietnam. Now it is preparing for the invasion of Taiwan.
In 1949, Kuomintang forces of Chiang-Kei-Seik defeated by Mao-Tse-Tung invaded Formosa, and massacred the local population, who are not ethnic Chinese but a mixed population of Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and the indigenous proto-Malays. Machu Empire of China has ruled Taiwan only for eight years between 1887 and 1895. Otherwise, it was never a part of China. However, now China claims that Formosa, renamed as
Taiwan, is an inalienable part of China and China wants to reclaim it as soon as possible. History cannot support that Chinese claim.
History of Taiwan and China's claim
China has no continuous history as a nation state. Before 1279, only the central part of what is China today, was Chinese, i.e., inhabited by the Chin or Han Chinese tribe. China is still called in Japan Chugoku or the Middle Kingdom. During 1279 to 1368, China was a part of the Mongolian Empire, and it ceased to exist as a sovereign state.
From 1368 to 1644, China had the Ming Dynasty of the Chin or Han Chinese tribe. At that time, Taiwan was occupied first by the Dutch and then by the Portuguese. For a brief period from 1645 to 1662, a half-Japanese general of the Ming Dynasty, Tei Seiko, after being driven from China by the invading Manchus from the north, occupied Taiwan. However, soon Portuguese regained control of the island , which they had renamed as Formosa, or the beautiful island.
During the Qing Dynasty of the Machu Emperors (1644-1912), the Manchurians, not the Han Chinese, ruled the land. The main argument of Sun Yat Sen, who had proclaimed China as a republic by driving out the Manchu Emperor China Pu Yi in 1912 was that Pei Yui was not a Chinese but a Machu.
The Manchurian government of China managed Taiwan for just that brief period of time
