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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4742772, member: 111237&quot;]Interesting choice and interesting and pivotal time in history. In the end it came down to who Yuan Shi Kai would throw is weight behind. </p><p><br /></p><p>My senior research paper was about the Kennedy administration and the ROC. I noticed when going through his records there was a lot of correspondence with Chiang Kai-Shek and others about what to do about China. I realized that the fate of China and the ROC was decided and really finalized under his presidency.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chiang saw Kennedy as someone who would help him invaded the mainland and restore the ROC but in the end, Kennedy made it very clear this would not happen. Kennedy and his advisors decided not to assist him in retaking China and instead chose to contain the PRC while helping defend the ROC in Taiwan. He told him if he chose to go it alone, the US would not help him if and when he failed. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was the end of Chiang&#039;s dream of reestablishing the republic on the mainland and he did not take it well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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