• PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    8 months ago

    It wasn’t a mistake though, they did tried. Fleeing ROC remnants were supplied by USA with naval force overwhelmingly stronger than what PLA could muster back then and the attempt to finish the war was thwarted. After that Taiwan became one of the US puppets so the status quo is kept even to this day.

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      8 months ago

      Mistake is the wrong word ig. More accurate to say it was one of its most costly failures.