Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "William C. Fox" channel.

  1. Not bad as these things go; however, some details should be noted. Before the Dutch arrived, the Spanish had a fort on Northern Taiwan; the Dutch arrived because the then Chinese government won't allow them to set up a trading station on the mainland. The Dutch were told that they could set up on Taiwan because it wasn't part of China. When the Dutch arrived, besides the few Chinese living there, there were 32 Japanese villages outnumbering the Chinese. The Chinese who took Taiwan from the Dutch were not the government of China (the government there considered them pirates operating from an area outside of China). To finally end the piracy, China took the island. While they held it for around 200 years, they did nothing for the island. The Chinese only controlled the coastal areas, and could not even go into the interlands (modern DNA analysis has shown the indigenous population is more closely aligned with Philippinos than Chinese). During the 1870s, two foreign incursions into Taiwan occurred. Both the French and the Japanese invaded the island to punish the indigenous tribes who murdered shipwrecked sailors. Why? Because the Chinese government said that they could not control the indigenous peoples, again pointing out that China really didn't control the island. As mentioned, the Japanese did develop the island and brought them to the then modern standards. After the return of inland control in 1945, it wasn't just the soldiers mistreating the Taiwanese. The government did little to repair the damage of the Allied attacks during the war and as a government effectively looting the island. Again, this video covers much of this. So, mainland China never has done much for Taiwan ; it was only after the Republicans no longer controlled the mainland that US aid and Nationalist interests developed the island again. Should Taiwan be independent, in my estimate, YES!
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