After the mainland fell to Communist China in 1949, a debate broke out in the halls of the U.S. Government and broadly across American society. Most Americans were still basking in the unconditional surrenders of Japan and Germany, the United States was seemingly an unchallenged Colossus on the world stage, and the relentless drive of Soviet Communism was not yet readily apparent. Many Americans forget that Nationalist China, led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was one of the “Big Five” Allied Powers alongside the U.S., the U.S.S.R., the United Kingdom, and France that defeated the Axis Powers. When, on December 7, 1949, Chiang Kai-shek flew from his capital of Chengdu, deep inside China, to Taiwan, an Island that had never been part of mainland China, the…
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