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- Title
Baiting Tigers and Poking Dragons - A Kungfu Perspective on China and Taiwan.
- Authors
Diamond, Malik
- Abstract
I get it that there are strategic reasons why China won't consider Taiwanese independence--particularly considering how cozy Taiwan's government has always been with the U.S.--but strategy is not the same as morality. The Chinese state has long cast a wary eye upon martial artists, with their secret societies and their tendency to rebel against state control; the Boxer Rebellion is merely the most well-known example of kungfu trouble-making. Chang Dongsheng later became an instructor for the Red Wall paratroopers, an elite KMT military unit that fought both the Japanese and the Communists. Chang also taught Shuai Jiao at the Nanjing Central Guoshu Academy, created by Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang (KMT) in 1928.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; CHINA; STATE power; UNITED States federal budget; DRAGONS; BROTHERS
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2022, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article