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I think it's also important to remember that the Nationalists were corrupt, you know, raping and killing their own people, whereas the communists, at least originally, we're pretty cool to most of the population- e.g., land reform and involving the people in the government. Philosophically I think the US has no business defending Taiwan, but politically I think it's a great bargaining chip for us. China's becoming an impressive power, and when we really need a favor from them we can always just hand Taiwan over- conversely, we could use it as a political motivation to attack the mainland, if we ever need to.
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